yep. starting to come together. hows that for tempting fate. couple of little things still bothering me but I'm all motivated and fired up after a fairly solid and successful track workout last night. Track is still fairly new to me. I didn't run in secondary school or at uni, so track workouts, and all of this speed business for a specific number of meters for a specific number of times is still, have i said it enough, new. Still fairly intimidated by running shorter distances being, what I would consider, more of a long distance type of runner...
There really is a slightly different type of pain from pushing yourself for another 400 meters compared to being at the end of a 20 mile run. More acute. More in the lungs and scrunched up in the face and the tightening shoulders and legs... less of a dull 'empty tank' feeling. Both feel like falling apart at the seems though. Didn't think I would make it through the 20X400 w/100 rest last night but I did... very much ably assisted by a greg and a scott and a richard. I'm pushing through the end of a heavy cold right now, but am still really chuffed this morning after the workout last night. Have to put in a long run this evening - something like 21 or 22 - because I want to attempt a false feeling of freshness, at least for the start, of the 10 miler on sunday morning in Columbia, MD. But, it'll be a 130 mile week so it's hardly tapering.
Enough grammatical errors for now. A bit more work, home, change, 21miles (i'll probably cheat a bit and take some mpthrees for company), shower, cook, eat, bed, read, sleep, 5am, alarm, change, out of door, 12miles on trails, home, drive to work, happy friday, run during lunchtime... etc. etc. blah dee bloody blah.
