Tue 4/15 - double, 75 minutes total incl. 6x800

AM - 25 minutes easy, Brook Path. Mild temps continue, although with spitting drizzle. Right leg more stiff than I'd like.

PM - 50 minutes incl. 6x800. Had a thought to try running repeats in a fashion that forces progression, i.e. picking up speed with each 200. The concept is certainly appealing, although a wind-driven rainstorm is perhaps not the ideal setting for it. Kept the pace goals very modest going in, along the lines of 45-43-41-39. Initially thought about taking a 2 minute break but in the end went with 200m jogs that took the typical just under a minute. Finding the range took a couple of reps, and it became clear that the starting and ending paces weren't really within my grasp--unable to control myself sufficiently at the outset and pick it up that extra bit at the end. In fact the average spread between first and last 200 was closer to 3.5 seconds than 6. It became clear by the third rep that the 40 second barrier would be increasingly difficult to surmount. Splits in all their excruciating detail:

43.8/41.0/40.0/39.1 - 2:43.9
(56.5)
43.6/41.1/40.2/39.7 - 2:44.6
(55.9)
42.9/41.5/41.0/40.3 - 2:45.4
(59.3)
43.9/42.3/40.8/40.6 - 2:47.6
(58.6)
43.4/42.1/40.6/40.0 - 2:46.1
(59.1)
42.7/41.7/40.7/40.0 - 2:45.1

Worth noting that the wind was such that it affected the first and third sections of the odd numbered reps and the second and last sections of the evens. I'd like to try this type of thing more in the future, but with more recovery and of course better weather. By the time I was done with the warmup jog the short recovery was a no-brainer just to minimize the time spent running in the rain. Right leg held up better than I would have thought given how stiff and locked up it was in the morning, and how tight the calf was right up until finishing drills and strides.