week of 4/23-4/29

Mon 4/23 - PM 70 minutes easy

Tue 4/24 - PM 55 minutes incl. 2(3x200), 400. Short workout with short rest between reps (40 seconds) and longer between sets. That said the splits were the quickest thus far this season, although the final 400 was a bit of a letdown. Breeze blowing as usual but from a different direction. Splits:
33.7/35.2/34.7
5R
33.3/35.3/35.7
7.5R
72

Wed 4/25 - PM 65 minutes very easy. Left leg stiff from yesterday.

Thu 4/26 - PM 50 minutes easy. Late start.

Fri 4/27 - PM 45 minutes incl. 11x200. Aborted attempt at another Centro style workout, with the idea being 8 laps worth of 200 hard 100 float followed by a 20-25 minute run then some kind of faster turnover stuff. The first part is the only thing that actually happened. Too late a start and feeling far to wrung out from a week of solidly late bedtimes to get through the whole thing. 200s felt harder than they should have for that speed and the floats were more sink than float. Making things more interesting was the use of a heart rate monitor for the first time in about 20 years. Looking to see what the patterns emerge in the course of interval and threshold workouts, for tonight's the steady upward climb and the fact I maxed out in the mid 160s (average HR for the split) were both telling. Splits:
40.6 (130) 27.8 (151)
41.3 (154) 27.3 (155)
40.8 (155) 25.9 (157)
41.0 (158) 27.0 (159)
40.6 (159) 25.6 (162)
40.5 (161) 26.3 (163)
40.8 (162) 26.3 (163)
40.6 (163) 26.1 (164)
40.2 (165) 26.3 (165)
39.8 (166) 28.3 (165)
40.3 (163)

Sat 4/28 - AM 60 minutes very easy, Area 51. Sunny and somewhat warm for once. Tired and not moving quickly at all. Left hamstring and glute not stuck terribly bad from yesterday at least.

Sun 4/29 - AM 70 minutes incl. 5k road race. Umpteenth time at Groton, not my best or most inspired effort here or in general but good enough on the day. Flat and tired as per usual, feeling particularly drag-ass during the warmup jog. Kiddies took the lead early on, one of them looked like he might stick but he crumbled soon after the mile mark. From there it was playing keep away with the other old fart who was trying to stalk me. The hill just after the two mile mark helped in maintaining/extending that separation. If mile markers are to be believed the first two miles were relatively consistent and the third mile was much slower, even accounting for the change in terrain. I was also likely running out of gas. End result was the same mid 17:30s sub-mediocrity. Longish puttering cooldown. Spitting rain showers with clammy cool conditions.