Archive for March 27th, 2008

Feeling drunk on it today! It appears my workouts are working.

Got out on this dark, rainy afternoon for a set of 6x880s. Happy to report, I am showing progress, not only in the speed of my intervals, but I also cut 30 seconds off my recoveries and even jogged them a tad faster than before.

Splits were 3:36, 3:39, 3:35, 3:40, 3:38, 3:35. And this includes some indigestion on the run for having eaten left-over Indian food about an hour before departing…because I’m stupid like that.

How satisfying to look upon my calendar and see I have 5 more quality days (3 tempos and 2 intervals or vice versa) until the Clean Air 5K. Add to that two 16-milers, a one-mile time-trial plus a handful of easy days and it all comes out to a useful block of development time before the big day.

And with that, my dear readers, I am on my way to the bathroom where a box of brown hair dye awaits. Yes, after 9 months of being various shades and stripes of blonde, I am going back to the old familiar color scheme. I dreamt about it last night and have been looking at old pictures, getting a little sentimental about that brunette I used to know.

So out with the new, back in with the old. Here I go for my extreme makeover. (Oh, Preference 5A Medium Brown, please don’t leave me looking like a big old bore…)