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- warm up x 1 km

- running drills and mobilizations

- interval 400m in [89,90,88,91,85,89,91,89] w/200m jogging rest
a second or two slower than a couple weeks ago. perhaps just because mileage over the last week or so was higher?

- cool down x 1.7 km

- stretch

weekly mileage 49.2 km. i've been increasing week by week for a solid month now, might let it drop back down a bit in the coming week before getting up over the goal benchmark of 50 km/week.

bump, how you holding up?

for poor man's GHR you can also use a thick yoga mat, folded up, or couch cushions.

too much intense stuff -- especially medium-intensity -- was also a mistake i made earlier on. i was doing 4 km runs at 4:45 pace, which at the time was too quick to be aerobic, too short to built much strength, and too slow to make me faster or build lactic tolerance.

as lyle mcdonald says: keep the hard days hard and the easy days easy.

FWIW this is the pace calculator i use: https://www.runnersworld.com/uk/training/a761676/rws-training-pace-calculator/

- run 13.71 km in 1:13:03

- stretch

a little shorter than i meant to go but legs were tired. also quite slow (~5:20), due to tiredness and frequently getting lost and having to reorient. new route, with gf on bike, up into a park that we hadn't been to before that's criss-crossed by lots of paths of varying post-rain navigability. was lovely to be in the woods, though.

ETA: 7-day mileage total 55.9 km, which if not a PR for that span is at least top two or three.

- run 10.06 km in 48:13
very nice, perfectly timed to hit the sunshine between showers.

- stretch

dave wottle comes from last at the bell to win the gold medal in the 1972 olympic 800, while wearing the kind of cap my grandpa gave me as a present when i was three years old.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LHid-nC45k" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LHid-nC45k</a>