The final week of the mid-year academic siesta. Yesterday (Wed) was a beautiful day in the 40s with bright sun for the first half of the day. I reserve Wednesday for either intervals or tempo runs in order to get some speedier workouts in once a week. I like to run on the Castleton Rail Trail for tempo runs since it is super flat, but it is still really icy. So I decided to run from my house down into Castleton Village for some interval training.
I set up my Garmin 310XT for an interval workout for the first time and it was great ... well running intervals with the watch was, not so much for the intervals. My interval workout consisted of:
1 mile warmup
5 - 1 mile repeats at 6:15 pace
0.25 mile recovery between each mile at 8-9 min pace
Cool down for a total of 8.8 miles
The intervals actually went pretty well and it was great to have the watch in order to hit the targets nearly right on for all segments.
Today (Thurs) is a cross-training day. We did get 2 inches of snow today, but not enough to ski on with the ground still thawed out. So I hit the lunchtime lap swim at the Castleton pool. 45 minutes of continuous laps really stretches you out, gets your heart rate up, and hopefully served as a good active recovery from the interval day.
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