And They Wonder Why I Listen To Linkin Park

Yes,back on the track at Franklin Field today,hopefully a sign that things are returning to normal......or at least what constitutes as normal in my life.
Post workout it dawned upon me that Franklin Field has not been a part of my winter workouts for a few years.
This time last year I was favouring the cinder track at Cobbs Creek and in the winter of 08 I was recovering from my stress fracture and not doing much in the way of speed work so it's really 07 since I trained here during the winter.

I arrived here at 4.20pm and promptly knocked out my mile warm up and series of pre workout stretches b4 leaping into my 6x600m repeats.
I wanted to utilize as much daylight as possible,my feeling was if I at least began them in daylight it'd help,as it was I was sporting the two layer look complete w/ hat and gloves.
During my warm up I began to question if I had the chops for 6 600s,maybe I'd do better to begin at 4 and work my way back up the ladder........after my second repeat this seemed like a sound idea but I somehow found it in me to complete all six,granted not w/ earth shattering times but from a psychological standpoint this was a big deal for me,confidence begets confidence and recently my confidence has been as low as whale shit.....which as we all know lays at the foot of the ocean.

#1,600m 72-42-1.54.the 72 second opening 400m surprised me,the 42 second closing 200 disappointed me,I didn't get an exact final time as my stop watch and gloves often have compatibility issues........
#2,600m 75-39-1.54.74.At this point I was thinking 4x600m but as my recovery began to kick in I realized I wasn't as winded as I first thought although my pride was somewhat dented by a pair of plus 1.50s.
#3,600m 75-40-1.55.32.This might be as good as it was gonna get this evening,in fairness I had no real idea what to expect split wise,it's not like I have my 07 6x600s as a point of reference,but even if I did I doubt I could really use them as an accurate yardstick.
#4,600m 81-39-2.00.64.IF I'd gone into this w/ the intention of it being 4x600m then this was not how I wanted to finish up.
#5,600m 79-41-2.00.71.I told myself not to tank #5 in order to finish #6 strong and came through w/ almost identical splits,albeit at plus 2.00.
#6,600m 75-35-1.50.80.It's still pantomime season back home so forgive if I throw a "that's the way to do it" into the mix!!

Obviously #6 is where I'd prefer all these repeats to be but given my recent three week "self induced coma" it might take a few weeks to get there,at least I'd made a start and hopefully gotten myself back into the routine of hitting Franklin Field post work.
As to the Linkin Park reference,I don't deny my love of Linkin Park,there's about two dozen of their songs on my ipod{soon to be more as I'm upgrading from 4GB to 8GB}and they are often a band I use to "get myself up"for a race or workout.
Most of my job is writing,I spend more time writing up deliveries and writing them on a log sheet than I do anything else on the dock{except maybe looking stuff up on the pc!.............shh!!!}but when it took over 15 minutes two write up two deliveries at lunch time after several interruptions that if I still had hair would've seen me pulling it out by now I could be forgiving for reaching for the ipod...........