A New Version Of The Old Scene

To win means nothing w/out the will to prepare
Juma Ikangaa

Firstly props to Aerosmith for the loan of the title and to my mate Dave Sweeney for the suggestion of a 3x2 mile repeat to prepare for the 10,000m.
Unlike previous Saturdays when I've gotten up at 7am to leave home by 8am to be on the track and ready to run by 9am today I backed things up by an hour so that I'd be on the track by 10am....roughly when the 10,000m will go off at Nationals in 4 weeks time.....and NO this does not mean I'll run 5x1,000m on Monday at 7.35pm to simulate the 5,000m final,while 7.35pm feels kind of weird to be racing factor in the 3 hour time difference from west coast to east coast and I've had beau coup races at 10pm running at The Armory in New York!!!!!!

Conditions were warm but that was what I was banking on,I worked up a sizable sweat on my mile warm up b4 getting set for my first ever 3x2 mile repeat.
I had no real idea what I should be shooting for,over the coming weeks and months this will be my go to repeat so hopefully post Nationals in August,September,October I'll be able to make sizable inroads into today's debut.

#1 2mile 1.21-1.25-1.23-1.25-1.25-1.27-1.22-1.20-11.08.4.Not a bad start,need to work on getting those 1.25/1.27 splits out of there,but otherwise reasonably consistent.
#2 2mile 1.26-1.33-1.25-1.42-???-???-???-1.27-12.28.8.I felt it right from the get go on this one very heavy in the legs,not much in the way of knee lift or leg turnover.
Forget what my overall time on laps 5 and 6 were hence the ??? lap 7 ended in 10.59.
#3 2mile 1.37-1.38-1.43-1.28-???-???-???-1.18-12.26.1-From less than auspicious beginnings I was able to pick up the pace,again trying to recall all 8 laps times proved to be a bit of a logistical nightmare and for future 2 mile repeats ye old split function on the stop watch may need to be brought into play,clocked 11.08. for lap 7.

So not earth shattering by any stretch of the imagination but when my 4x1 mile repeats began in ernest in May of 07 my debut went:5.26.8.-5.28.2.-5.25.5.-5.08.5- b4 I began to knock out 4 sub 5 minute miles on a regular basis some 14 months later(ah,those were the days!!!!)so hopefully w/ lots of painstaking practice my 2 mile repeats will also work there way down,beginning I hope in 2 weeks time post worlds.
Easy 6 miler tomorrow to round out the week at 34 miles as the taper for Nationals gets under way.