Sat 1/23 - PM 30 minutes treadmill

in fact just under 30 minutes, got to 4 miles and turned the thing off. Started at just over 6 mph and ended up at 10.3. The last few minutes I was working harder than I would have liked. Weather steadily degraded through the day until there was horizontally blowing snow by evening, which I wanted no part of. Got up earlier than the workaday norm with the idea of seeing five planets with the CH, but overcast skies put paid to that idea. Eventually went back to bed and wound up lounging around until far too late while not feeling that refreshed for it.

Fri 1/22 - PM 65 minutes easy

Rockland-Levittown-Summerhill-Tiger Drive. With a few attempts at "pure speed" reps of 50m on the clear part of the track before heading in. Not sure how successful that was but worth the effort anyway, as turnover has been lacking otherwise. Not as cold as yesterday, mainly due to the lack of wind.

Thu 1/21 - PM 80 minutes easy

Longfellow loop with a visit to McMansionville with the CH. Relaxed effort but ruined somewhat by my underestimation of how cold it was and wrong glove choice. Turned into the wind the last 15 minutes which led to frozen fingers, uncomfortable enough that I picked up the pace to get it over with.

Wed 1/20 - PM 60 minutes incl. mile-1320-880-440

Cutdown session on the track, after actually warming up outside for once. Originally the plan was to take float recoveries of 5, 4, and 3 laps between the reps but after counting up all the laps that would entail I decided to cut the rest to 4-3-2 instead. Pace progressed in highly regular fashion, starting at 82 pace and dropping by 2 seconds roughly for each rep after that. Not that I planned it quite that way but it became clear that was how it would go by halfway through the 880. With the relatively quick recoveries the final rep, while not that impressive, certainly took some effort. Splits:

5:28.4 (3:03.5)
4:00.4 (2:16.0)
2:36.8 (92.9)
76.8 (49.0)

Tue 1/19 - off

Unable to muster any motivation to get out the door in miserably cold and windy conditions. Too tired, too flat after the past two days. First complete zero in a while, although there have been plenty of less than impressive days of late.

Mon 1/18 - AM 80 minutes easy

Area 51. Chose to brave the trails despite last night's snow, which was about three inches of the fluffy dry stuff. With the wind rising and blowing it around as well as the sun coming out, it got compacted some. Overall not perfect footing and not quite as easy an effort as the pace might have indicated but worth it to escape the roads for a day.

Sun 1/17 - double, 85 minutes total incl. 5x400, 4x400, 3x400, 2x400

AM - 35 minutes very easy jog around Maynard with the CH. A nice way to start the day.

PM - 50 minutes incl. 14x400 in four diminishing sets. Similar though not identical to a session done a year ago, with the requisite "new interval" twist in that the recoveries within each set were floats not jogs, a lap for the first two sets, two laps for the third set. For the final pair I chickened out and did an easy jog 90 seconds instead. 3.5 minutes recovery between sets. Hoping to start at 10k pace, then 5k, then 3k, finally mile pace. Overall I'm pleased with how it all went, although it would have been nice to do a final separate repeat by itself to make it 15 total. Time was running short and I could feel myself tapping the bottom of the well by that point. Splits:

83.4 (47.6) 81.4 (47.2) 80.9 (46.8) 82.3 (47.2) 82.6 (46.1)

79.8 (45.7) 77.3 (46.9) 77.8 (46.8) 77.9 (46.6)

73.8 (93.9) 74.3 (95.0) 76.3 (96.1)

70.4 (1.5R) 69.6