Sat 5/4 - 85 minutes incl. 8x1600

Longfellow loop. Originally this was to be a straight progression run, decided earlier in the week that it would be more humane to break it up into chunks, i.e. longish reps with 400m jog recoveries. Not feeling at all sanguine about how the right leg would hold up to this type of thing after the past couple of days, but shoved off nonetheless late morning. As has been the case of late, only a vague notion of what an appropriate pace would be, settled on trying to get them all under 5:50 which was modest but hopefully realistic, and allowed for any issues with the leg stiffening up. After hitting the first 800 of the first rep in just under 2:50 that pace immediately became the new standard. From there the times followed a predictable pattern:

5:38.7
5:42
5:37.8
5:45.2
5:39.2
5:45.2
5:40.7
5:42.5

recoveries were all in the 1:45-50 range. The ever-present breeze, while swirling somewhat, felt like it was at my back on the odd-numbered reps. The numbers support this, plus every even-numbered rep felt clunky and awkward. As expected, as the session wore on the right leg became progressively more torqued up, in particular belly of right hammie. Other than a couple of twinges the calf held up. Hammie was of course stiff the rest of the day. It's been worse though.