A little too much thinking

Nice am run at Mantua- just out 12:40 and back for an easy 3 mile shakeout. Saw some nice ducks and geese.

Took a nap from like 1130-1 then woke up but basically didnt feel like driving all the way down to PG so slept for another hour. Then went down to mcd to do the workout. Aim was to just run the 3200 at mcd and it was pretty nice for january def like 45 degrees and mild wind. So 2 mile WU and some actually productive strides in the 17 sec range so that was good. Trying for 79s straight through.

So felt ok on the first lap and clicked the watch actually- it said 79.00 heh so accurate but it didnt feel that easy uhoh. Ran the second lap- good news it was 79.3 or something- bad news is i knew i wasnt going to run 6 more laps like that. So then ran an 81 and a 79 to finish off a 5:19 mile. Took a slow lap jog and decided to do an 800 so started that at 9:00. ran 76 and decided if I could speed up that I wouldnt have to do another one- so ran the second lap in 74 for a 2:31. Then actually ran a good 2 mile WD.

So this wasnt fabulous obv. Perhaps I should have gone down there after all haha- actually it makes no difference. Fastest 800 in def at least 8 months and possibly since spring 2008 id have to look it up so thats a good sign. It was actually good to do a (slightly) sustained faster run pretty much all i do now is either tempo or some kind of short thing like 200s. It will take a little bit to get used to doing long painful wos again. I have one scheduled for like 3 weeks from now 6x800 in 2:36 which by then should be doable. Also im not used to running a full mile in practice anymore hehe too much running with HSers. SO a good day of work overall although not what i wanted.

Also the best news of the day is that other than my calf being a little tight my feet felt pretty much completely fine after the run. I ran with training shoes since I didnt want to push with flats esp after yesterday- but to feel good the day after running a few 200s on that hard track in flats and come back with 5:00 pace running(albeit fairly brief) and not feel any problems is a very very good sign. Have to keep it up etc but so far so good.

One other thing heh def during/after the 5:19 mile I had some thoughtss of like uhoh im headed downhill but i felt better obv after the 800 which was acceptably hard but not crushing. Again just not used to running that far in prac. It will improve.