May 17 and 18th,  Friday and Saturday

Friday-  On a pleasant afternoon we drove to Belmar for the opening of the Seafood Festival.  I intended to do a workout when I got home. But we ate so much seafood that I conked out at 6 p.m.!    Rest day!

Saturday – the conditions seem optimal today for a time trial in an 800m to see the effect of the hard work I’ve been doing recently.  It was after a day off, and the late afternoon weather conditions were perfect for a quick run.  So, I did a good warm up, laced up my spikes and headed to the starting line.  I wanted to see if I could run a comfortably quick 3:30 without exerting maximum effort. The one caveat to this event was a bit of a nagging hamstring that seemed to a occur while I was doing some work around the house this morning. I could feel it throughout the run and as a result backed off somewhat. The run itself was quite comfortable. I ended  running 3:26 which surpassed my expectations. I was never in any aerobic distress. I think this bodes well for my conditioning level right now. The lower hamstring issue was pretty obvious when I finished and I decided not to do any more for the day.  I think the next few days will need to be some aerobic long runs to allow my muscle to return to normal. No more housework until after Albuquerque.

Weak effort on stats.  Man up, O’Rourke……………….