The Long Haul

Having officially called time on my 2011 track season after Sundays track pentathlon I began to devise my fall season,phase 1 a 6 week hopefully uninterrupted period of 50 miles a week w/ no races and 2 repeat sessions per week,this would lead me upto 5th Avenue Mile, this then morphs into a 10 week phase w/ 7 races to take me to the end of November.....and then indoor track.
The plan for the next six Saturdays is lay a base of 3x2 mile repeats while I can train w/out worrying about races so this morning saw me resume my battle w/ vertigo.....24 laps plus another 8 thrown in for good measure w/ my mile warm up and cool down!!!!

I arrived at Temple's track a little after 10am,conditions were sunny and warm but at 86 degrees not too humid,that coupled w/ only a handful of people on the track meant the elements were in my favour for a decent workout.......

Repeat #1 1.23.2,1.30.3,1.29.2,1.30.9,1.30.6,1.33.1,1.32.3,1.27.5,-11.57.5.Not exactly the start I wanted the opening lap was solid enough but after that it kind of went into the crapper,it didn't help the wrist band on my stopwatch went kerplunk on me the other day so I was having to hold the watch like an old fashion stop watch(I know I'm having a series of 80's flashbacks right now but seriously!!!!)and I wasn't able to see my splits per lap,if I had've maybe I'd have seen seen the 1.30 splits and upped my pace.....or maybe I was just having an off day?

Repeat #2 1.26.1,1.31.0,1.31.9,1.36.2,1.34.2,1.36.4,1.39.0,1.28.6,-12.23.8.I knew it was shaping up as "one of those days" but rather than throw in the towel I figured I'd see it through to the bitter end,if nothing else next week I'll have a chaseable target time a la week 2 of these repeats when week 1 was also nothing to write home about.

Repeat#3 1.31.1,1.33.8,1.31.5,1.34.4,1.33.3,1.34.0,1.31.7,1.20.1,-12.10.3.A mild form of redemption,having come through the mile in 6.11.0 I knew I had to try and pick up the pace and did just that w/ a sub 6 mile to round out a some what disappointing repeat session.

My three weeks of 3x2 mile repeat so far read a little like an EKG chart:
11.08.4-12.28.8-12.26.1.
11.21.2-11.40.9-11.46.2.
11.57.5-12.23.8-12.10.3.
The fact I came home and very uncharacteristically took a three hour nap probably underlines how tired I feel,my schedule has been a little unforgiving of late,sleeping till 9am this morning was my first lie in of sorts for a couple of weeks and since I'm pleading financial embarrassment this weekend I'm figuring a lot of downtime w/ my feet up outside of my 12 mile run tomorrow should I hope reset my body clock so that next Saturday I'm kicking the 3x2 mile repeats arse....not the other way around!!!