Mon 5/21 - PM 50 minutes very easy, rail bed to S. Acton and back. The day after running down a rail trail I ran down another rail trail. Legs are quite dented from the fool's errand yesterday.
Tue 5/22 - PM 60 minutes easy, Area 51. Still in putter mode, quads feeling stiff and heavy. Originally planned to hit the trails in Lincoln but the weather wasn't cooperating with that, gloomy and overcast.
Wed 5/23 - PM 70 minutes easy, Lincoln woods. Coming around finally from Sunday but as expected I wasn't ready for anything resembling a hard effort. Nice day for it at least.
Thu 5/24 - PM 60 minutes easy
Fri 5/25 - off. Left work early thinking I'd squeeze in a track workout before lunch but it wasn't happening. Flat, tired and listless.
Sat 5/26 - AM 40 minutes incl. 3x200, 2x300, 500. Aborted attempt at the pyramid workout that I've done at least three times since November. Not happening today as I'm still laboring under the exhaustion left over from last weekend exacerbated by terrible sleep habits since then. Beating a dead horse to be sure. Hot sticky conditions that combined with a late morning start put me behind the 8 ball from the get go. The average HR numbers tell the tale, as I wasn't really recovering at all towards the end despite the relatively generous 300 jog recoveries. Completely at the end of my rope on the 500 and fading quickly. Which I shortchanged myself on slightly (supposed to be 90 seconds) but hardly the straw that broke the camel's back. Splits:
36.7 (137) 83.6 (155)
37.8 (158) 81.1 (157)
37.3 (160) 80.3 (160)
57.6 (164) 83.8 (161)
57.4 (165) 86.5 (161)
1:40.2 (169)
Sun 5/27 -PM 90+ minuttes very easy, Concord. Meandering run around Concord center, with forays into the town forest, CCHS area, and the cemetery/reformatory branch. Gloomy gross conditions all day, about 35 degrees cooler than yesterday but just as humid. Woke up, had breakfast, thought about running in the AM and then thought better of it and went back to sleep for almost 3 hours more. Quite strung out at the moment.
