Mile Repeats or Should I Say Mile ReHeats

Started today's speedwork with 1.75 miles as a warmup and 4 x 100m striders.  Felt great so far considering how hot it was.  How hot?  As someone mentioned today, "It feels like a hair dryer out there."  Yeah, exactly like that.  The wind was blowing a little and it was hot air.  It was around 95 degrees on the track.  I wonder how hot it was directly in the sun.  I would guess in the range of 100-105.

The workout:  3 x 1 mile repeats.  Thank goodness we got a little cloud cover after the second repeat.  It was still hot, but it was almost like being in the shade.

I ran 7:05, 7:19, and 7:20.  My goal was to run 7:00 miles.  I didn't really push myself too hard.  I wanted to make my times, but I was really concentrating on my stride and overall form.  Getting a good toe off and knee drive.  Relaxing my arms and not worrying about keeping them at a 90 degree angle.  I was good about that part, but I did have to remind myself a couple times during each repeat that I needed to have a forward lean, which improved my speed immediately (if only short lived).

I wish I was better at labeling my posts.  I wanted to look up my past mile repeat workouts and compare my times.  I only used "mile repeats" once in labels.  I did a search, too, and that didn't find anything.  I can't believe I haven't blogged any of those workouts.  I have to do a better job of not skipping my posts.

Mile Repeats (Kinda)

2 mile warmup at 11:45 pace. Seemed like forever, because I ran it on the track. Mile repeats. 6:59, 6:52. It almost doesn't seem like a repeat workout only doing 2 miles, but it is what it is. Half mile recovery and then one mile cool down.

I intended on running 3 miles @ 7:20 like a couple of weeks ago, but I took off too fast. I still feel good about my workout since I went sub 7 minutes on 2 runs back to back.

One week till my next 5k race. Can't wait.
 
Oh yeah, and the blister I started during my beach run on Saturday is now 4 times its original size.  Awesome!