Let The Countdown Commence

Let's see U2 at Giants Stadium a week away,long weekend in Manhatten w/ my family also a week away,5th Avenue Mile,8 days away,major attempt to lower my 5k pr 16 days and counting.
W/ Lacrosse at Franklin Field Monday throwing off my rotation I find myself reverting to the old Tue,Thur,Sat rotation this week,this does nullify my Friday off work,hit Franklin Field routine but frankly back to back workouts never really sit well w/ me and honestly I'm not sure the achilles would appreciate it either so Wednesdays rain may've been a blessing in disguise as it kyboshed any thoughts I had of returning to the track for my 5x1k repeat till Thursday evening.
After the pounding I took in the rain last Friday I was keen to get things back on an even keel,conditions were mid September picture book,blue skies,reasonable temps and as an added bonus the track to myself,my first 3 5x1k's had been a mishmash,now w/ 3 to go I needed to make each one counts if Oct 4th is to be a red letter day for me.

#1,1,000m,1.11,1.15,43-3.09.99.strewth talk about get off to a flyer!!I was gobsmacked to see 1.11.as my opening 400 split,I quickly began to ease up over the closing 600m in order to make sure there'd be fuel in the tank for the latter repeats.
#2,1,000m,1.16,1.19,34-3.09.54.uh oh! a sense of dejavu last week when I opened in back to back 3.09s I got cocky enough to think I could hold that pace,who knows maybe I could've if the wind and the rain hadn't taken their toll,w/out them as a scapegoat tonite we were about to find out.
#3,1,000m,1.17,1.19,37-3.13.68.was guilty of not focusing on the closing 200m had I have done so I feel a 3.11 at least was on the cards,somewhat ominously I was a second up on last weeks workout,this week I wanted to make sure there was no need for Triple A to be summoned to Franklin Field!
#4,1,000m,1.18,1.21,37-3.16.38.the 4th 1k still proves to be my hardest k to conquer but since I plan to keep the 5x1,000m repeat in my rotation as I enter phase 3 of my training in early October I feel in time I'll do a better job w/ it.
#5,1,000m,1.15,1.17,34-3.06.52.where did that come from?of the 20 1k repeats I've done since begining this repeat on Aug 26th this was my second fastest and by far my fastest closing 1k,the key?that time honoured adage"go into the first turn as hard as you can and set the tone early"and also the equally time honoured adage"it's the final repeat you have all evening to recover no matter how hard it hurts"both seemed to do the trick this evening.
Combined my splits added upto 15.53.on week 2 I clocked a combined 15.59 so I feel I'm heading in the right direction.

It would be nice if I had the chance at a 5k time trial prior to Syracuse,sadly I don't think my schedule will afford me that chance,but who knows a tweak here, an unexpected schedule change there I may be able to work it into my time frame,what I would like to do is make sure next weeks 5x1,000m repeat is close to if not better than this one.