9/1 - 9/7: Consistency

The Big Sur Marathon was on April 28th. After that, I took two days off and got right back to it. Some interesting stats since that point:

- 133 days have passed

- 833 miles ran

- 18 days off from running

- 19 interval sessions

- 14 Fresh Pond races

- 19 games of Ultimate

- 2 triathlons

- 1 10k

- 1 5-mile race

- 1 1-mile race

More importantly, I was able to stay injury free. After missing a significant chunk of time leading up to Boston, my ultimate goal for the summer was to run consistently. That remains the goal for the foreseeable future.

Sunday		1-Sep		Long Run		0:07:48		16.24		Battle Road. Extremely humid, and then finished the last few miles in a complete downpour. Tough run, fun run.
Monday		2-Sep		Recovery/Bike		0:08:11		7.21		Just easy running, then 9m on the bike too.
Tuesday		3-Sep		Intervals				11.33		400x4/1200x2/400x4 - 400's were supposed to be at 3k pace and 1200's at 5k-8k pace. Ended up doing things mostly too fast, but hopefully I can take a stab at a fast mile soon.
Wednesday		4-Sep		Recovery		0:08:26		7.04		Started w/Raleigh then just kept it easy.
Thursday		5-Sep		Fresh Pond		0:06:37		3.06		Took it as a fairly easy tempo, and didn't have much time for a warm up or a cool down.
Friday		6-Sep		Tempo		0:07:15		6.09		First 2m w/Raleigh were a warmup to a solid 4m at ~6:35 pace.
Saturday		7-Sep		Recovery		0:07:32		5.16		Finished this a bit faster than I thought I would. Felt comfortable though.

Tuesday Splits:

400 - 1:16.22

400 - 1:22.23

400 - 1:20.28

400 - 1:22.03

1200 - 4:23.15

1200 - 4:27.37

400 - 1:22.05

400 - 1:20.20

400 - 1:16.86

400 - 1:11.38

I started off a little hot on that first 400, but it was my responsibility to lead the interval, and so I'm ok going a little fast on that one. The final 400 was ok - I was trying to open it up and practice feeling that burn for the final quarter, and I didn't have a lot of juice in my legs as I started to turn into the final 200. I opted to hold form instead of trying to get on my toes. I've been feeling pretty strong to finish these workouts lately though...I'm going to need to find a good time to improve my mile time.

Total Miles: 56.13