I have no idea what made me decide to turn today's 8 mile run into an interval workout... must have been a case of temporary insanity. Nevertheless, I have to admit, it felt really good.
I started with a 2 mile warm up @ 6 mph, then started my intervals. I wanted to stretch them out through the majority of my workout, so I decided to do ten of them... an obvious sign that I suffer from a complicated case of the crazies. Fortunately, the small portion of my brain still thinking clearly told me to maybe go a little easy on the speed of those intervals, so I decided on 30 seconds of almost-all-out sprinting @ 9 mph (I can usually handle 10 mph) with a 4:30 cool down @ 6 mph. I completed 9 intervals at this pace and stepped it up a notch for the final interval with 30 seconds @ 9.5 mph and the final cool down @ 6.5. Over the course of the last half mile of my run, I increased my speed from 6.5 to 7.5 and, while this increase was clearly unnecessary after an interval workout, I did finish my last mile somewhere just over 8:00, which I was incredibly proud of at the end of 8 miles. I'm constantly amazed with how far I've come in these last few months!
And while I have some soreness here and there, I must say that I'm feeling pretty great at the end of this workout... but I'm still looking forward to climbing into bed... :)
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