Field Day

Ah, Memorial Day. Time for lounging by the pool, sipping daiquiris and general laziness and debauchery.

Or, if you're me--a marathoner in training--a perfect day for speed workouts at the elementary school track! Tim and I headed off around noon (which is what happens if you sleep until nearly 11am!), and the thermometer read 83 degrees. I got a bit of an arm workout lugging my 20 ounces of Powerade the 1.5 miles to the track, most of which we ran at a comfortable 10:30 pace.

We were the sole people on the field, which is probably because of the aforementioned facts that it was 1) Memorial Day, 2) 83 degrees outside and 3) noon. It was a nice change to have the track to ourselves, as we're used to running in the early evenings and dodging children, strollers and stray soccer balls.

I actually enjoy track workouts because they're over quickly. However, today we did the longest speed run I've ever done--3 x 1M. Four laps around the track equal a mile--which is a pretty long distance to run at a fast pace. But we did 8:22, 8:39 and 8:37 minute miles, respectively, with short walk breaks in between. That's about a 27 minute 5k, and considering the one and only 5k I've run was around 34 minutes, I'd say that's pretty good.

However, we did skip the post-workout run up Cardiac Hill. It was a holiday, after all.