May 17, Thursday

200m intervals, breezing!

Once again my visit to the cinders turned out to be a positive workout. It was a totally cloud-covered 75° afternoon.   Arlene and I started out with a 15 minute walk. I continued to jog for another 20 minutes as warm up. I determined to run some 200 meter intervals. After carefully marking off a 200m stretch of the cinders, I began running 6 intervals with one and a minute average recovery. The goal was to stay under 50 seconds per effort.  I was running the 200m intervals back and forth between two marked spots on the track. For some reason that I cannot explain the times in one direction were much quicker than the times in the other direction.  (Except for #6)

:44,  :51,  :45,  :51,  :46,  :44!

I stopped,  still feeling great, out of an abundance of caution only.

Another stroll with Arlene and an extended cool down made the distance covered for the day 4.75 miles in 80 minutes.

Steady stats.