Boxes

W/ phase one of my summer training drawing to a close w/ my season opening race scheduled for Monday May 14th it was important to get another solid interval session in yesterday.
Like the 4x1 mile repeats a fortnite ago the 5x1,000m repeats are an old friend,initially brought in 2 years ago to help w/ my 5,000m races I found it a useful repeat for my 800s and 1,500s and thus kept it in my rotation although last year I upped it to 8x1,000m as I prepped for the 5,000m at Worlds.
Coming off of an easy 6 miler on Monday I was primed and ready for another brisk set of repeats at sunny Roxboro and sunny it was w/ temps close to 78 degs when I arrived at 4.30pm.

Six lap warm up b4 getting into my flats,the plan was to go 1.20-1.20-35=3.15.......
I almost cocked it up on the opening 400m posting a 1.13 b4 easing off the gas on the second lap to clock 1.26 and closing in a modest 36 seconds to open in a brisk 3.05.0.
After that things settled down,1.18-1.21-33-3.12.0 for #2,1.18-1.19-36-3.13.5 for #3
1.20-1.20-34-3.14.3 for #4 and 1.19-1.21-34-3.14.6.for #5.
Obviously I was a little concerned on #4 and #5 that my bravardo on the opening 400m would come back and derail my hopes of going 5/5 at sub 3.15 but I was able to hunker down and dig deep over the final 5 laps.

Once again,w/ almost deft precision{or should that be deaf precision!!!}I had to weave around a walker in lane 1 for most of my workout......inspite of numerous other walkers who chose the outer lanes,"Budwiser King Of Beers" kept walking in lane 1 and kept giving me "daggers' everytime I blew by him and cut back into the inside of lane 1,it's funny I came across a blog entry from 08 where I bitched about the lack of respect I get from lane 1 walkers at Roxboro,nothing has changed in four years.....of course that summer in Spokane I got silver in the 800m and gold in the 1,500m so maybe it's an omen as Lisle is now 14 weeks away......