A Useful Workout

I ran on one of the new treadmills in the gym this morning--it's a great piece of equipment that I'll get to know better through the winter.

The workout was a nice race week jump start: 8 X 2 minutes at slightly faster than race pace with a 90 second recovery between the work pieces.

With the warm-up and cool down I ran 5 miles (8K) in 45 minutes. I ran my work pieces at 7:00 / mile pace. I think I can hold 7:15 pace during the race this Saturday. 7:15s would be a minute faster than I ran on Nov. 18 so this is perhaps a bit aggressive but I think I can get there. The much flatter course helps, obviously. We're going to jog the course tomorrow morning.