wow, the weather made this workout VERY hard. right now at 5:50pm it is 87 degrees out, feels like 90. at 4pm when i left the house it was probably 5 degrees hotter. ughughugh. then, going one direction was extremely windy, which threw off my times. goal workout was 2 mile, 2 min rest, 1.5 mile, 1 min 30 sec rest, 1 mile, 1 min rest, 800, 30 sec rest, 800, 30 sec rest at 5:45 pace. on a day like today, that would have destroyed me. actual: 2 mile: 11:29 or 11:30. this was good. wind was behind me though. 800 splits were silly: 2:44 (wtff?), 2:55 (5:39), 2:54 (8:33), 2:57 (11:30). i would have liked to actual run a 2:52 or 2:53 (5:45 pace), but i guess 2:54-55 is ok. then 2 min to 2 min 30 sec rest. 1.5 mile: 9:06! SUCKED. hard wind the whole way. but surprisingly even splits, even when i felt like total crap. 2:59 (i knew it was gonna be bad), 3:03 (6:02), 3:04 (9:06). here i was going to use a nearby fountain, but i when i got there it just sprayed everywhere. i felt terrible, even walking in the wind toward the fountain was hard. the heat was a huge factor. so i ended up walking/jogging to another fountain about 600m away, towards the next half-mile marker on the path. got some water, went to the closest marker and did the next bout from there. probably 7 min rest. ugh. 1 mile: 5:45. plenty of rest will get you there... so will wind essentially at my back. this part has a weird little ditch thing in the path that slows you down a little, but ended up ok. splits were 2:47 (wtf is this. wind.), 2:58 (5:45). guess i sort of kept dying down to 6-min-ish pace. 2 min rest 800m: 2:51. good. wind behind again. just squeezing them out now. 1 min rest? maybe 1 min 30 sec. i don't remember. 800m: 2:55. into heavy wind, up slight hill. feel like this was good, considering. i ended up finishing the workout about a mile from where i had started it, where my shirt was. i was like, "screw that," and did a 1 mile cooldown instead of a 2 mile cooldown, and just left my shirt on the path. i can literally say i left a small part of myself on the path after this workout. several pounds of water and a white bit of cloth...
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