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8 x 800

February 8, 2011 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Run

Comments:
200m/60sec recovery, 2mi warm up, 1.5mi cooldown. 2:45ish interval avg.

had everything packed to head straight to the lake after work for a hard 5mi tempo workout. everything except my goddamned running shorts.
the ensuing trip home to grab them zapped what little motivation i'd had to run hard, and left me with less than no desire to wade through rush hour traffic for a second time to get back to the lake. so, after a desperate effort to muster something resembling motivation, i threw on my race shorts and track shoes and headed to the high school down the street for some 800 repeats. and promptly had to wait on a long, lumbering train to pass before finally getting this damned run started. after enduring the frustrations leading up to it, the run itself was peachy.

encountered a father and his young runner daughter as she performed an involved warm up routine, 15 minute tempo run, and an equally exhaustive cooldown and stretching routine under his attentive tutelage. the moment i saw them approaching the track, him on his bike (which he would later ride on the track along side her during the tempo portion of her workout) and her trotting effortlessly beside him, i recognized a coach and an athlete with a serious task at hand. when one of my cooldown intervals happened to finish where they were getting down to business, i said hello, and asked about the night's workout. while she changed into a pair of mizuno wave universes, he first expressed his concern that the wind might take it's toll during her tempo interval, and then informed me that she would be running it at a 7:10 pace, in preparation for running the cap10k at a similar pace. impressed, i asked her how old she was. she looked up at me for the first time and answered, "ten."