If I Could,I'd Fly For You

It was hard to believe it was late October this evening when I arrived at Franklin Field for my 5x1,000m repeats,clear skies,warm sunshine,no wind it's as close to idyllic as you could get in any month,much less October,you know evenings like this won't come around too often so not only is it paramount to take advantage of them but also produce a repeat worthy of such conditions.
As of Monday I reintroduced my core strength stretches to my pre workout warm up,leaving my achilles strengthening stretches to post workout,come late March when Indoor Nationals roll around it's the work I've put in now that'll hopefully pave my way to success,while the achilles still isn't 100% I've learnt to work w/it,next week I'd like to retry wearing my racing flats,if the results are the same as 6 weeks ago then plan b is lightweight racing shoes.

#1,1000m,1.15,1.19.38-3.12.43.I was aiming to open in 1.16 so I'll take only being off by a second,unlike the 9 second plus minus I clocked Monday in my opening 600.
#2,1000m,1.15,1.17,39-3.11.90.A near carbon copy of my opener,last time out I averaged 3.15 per 1,000m tonite I was on pace to shave a little off of that.
#3,1,000m,1.18,1.18,37-3.13.35.Despite my opening 400m creeping up by three seconds I was still keeping an even pace,but here comes the acid test.........
#4,1,000m,1.18,1.18,39-3.15.71.Just like a fortnite ago by taking a little off of my opening repeats there was gas left in tank for #4 and I didn't implode as had been my won't in my earlier 1,000s.
#5,1,000m,1.19,1.23,34-3.16.64.Obviously the 1.23 doesn't sit well but I like the fact I could throw in a closing 200m in 34 seconds on my 5th and final repeat.

Combined my splits came out to 16.07.last time out I went 16.15. so I'm moving in the right direction,next time out hopefully no 1.23 splits or 3.15 plus 1,000s.
In the "what if" game of life we sometimes like to play"what if" money wasn't an option...in that case my workouts this week would've been conducted on a track in London as I would have flown home to catch the reunited Spandau Ballet perform one of their three comeback shows at the O2 Arena in Greenwich.
Spandau were one of my favourite 80s bands,long b4 cds when vinyl ruled the roost my record collection bares testimony to that as I own every Spandau album and 12'' single from 1980-1987.
It remains to be seen if they come stateside next year to promote their first album of new material in 20 years,like alot bands from England success this side of the Atlantic for some reason seemed to elude them despite being huge in Europe,if they make it only as far as New York you can bet I'll be there.