This morning Juliana and I met dark and early for another track workout. I'm saving myself for speed work with the group on Thursday, but didn't want to pass up the opportunity to run at the PRIVATE! NO TRESPASSING! track with some company. It turns out we had more company than we bargained for when a little fox came out to play. He was just hanging out on the track, watching us run around and around. We tried in vain to scare him off, but he wanted to stick around. He was harmless and playful; A couple of times he pulled J's shirt and water bottle off the bench, dragging it across the ground. Too bad neither of us had our cameras!
I decided to run some moderately-paced, controlled intervals of 2000 metres (5 laps) with just enough recovery in between to grab some water. I finished them off in 9:58, 9:51, 9:37 (average interval pace = 4:54/KM = 7:53/mi) while J ran her own workout, and we finished off 10.5K to start the day.
Happy Tuesday!
27 comments:
great start to the day!
i love seeing fox when i run, they are so cute. but also scare me. :-)
Aw! That's adorable. Wish you had a camera too. Maybe next time. Happy Tuesday to you as well.
Be careful and don't get burned out with all of your mileage milestones.......
great way to start the day.
good job!
Happy Tuesday!! Great work getting up and over to the track for those 2000's!! Super speedy!!
So I bought the Nathan handheld this weekend, very similar to the one you have. And I ran with it yesterday morning. I liked it but I don't know how you ran with it for 26+miles!! I kept switching hands with it - guess it takes some getting used to!
Hah! I would've loved to see that little fox pulling on the shirt and water bottle. Nice speed work for you!
wheewwwwwwwwwww!!!! that's an awsesome workout marlene!!!!! love how you go LONG and still push yourself. sometimes short + fast seems "easy" in comparison b/c it's over so much more quickly!!!
Sounds like a good run. The fox sounds cute. I wonder if you'll continue to see him while trespassing on the track.
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So cute about the fox! 93k, I think we need to start calling you Marlene the Machine! Or ''Marchine'' lol.
You had a great week last week, too! Keep it up girlie!
Nice work at the track - it's track day for me and it's going to be 100 when I leave work - I think I'm going to die! Ha! Happy Tuesday!
Whenever Colin and I run together I am reminded of why Colin and I DON'T run together!
Great workout this morning. Its only Tuesday? BOOOOOOOOOOO!
Sounds like a great start to the day!
YAY for AM workouts!
I would want to take that fox home and cuddle it!
cute! Great mileage totals.
Nice work! My 6x1200m almost killed me today...almost! How cool to have a playful fox at the track!
Nice splits.
Great track workout, yay! So cute about the fox - I love wildlife runs....except for the snakes. Ewww.
Oh the little fox would be so cute to see. I've never seen one in the wild.
I love how your little recovery run was a nice easy 11K :). Like yeah, no biggie, just 11K - hahaha
"dark and early" - heh, that will start to be the Norm as the daily sunshine starts to decrease. Sad day!
Perfect start to a Tuessday :)
Wow! That's a great workout! I look forward to the day when my recovery run is 11K :)
Private! All your pre-dawn hootin' and hollerin' will surely draw the cops over, but you could blame it on the fox... They'll never know. I hate on my iPhone that whenever I type "never" it comes out "ne'er". Who says that? Anyway, I'm typing from my iPhone... Pardon any weird words, this keyboard can be annoying. I hear my cube neighbor eating m&m's so I gotta go steal some but great track workout! :)
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seriously, marlene...if you don't finish your next marathon at about 3:40 I'm going to be surprised. You are seriously kicking butt. I need to up my game!
A 93k week and then a track workout! You are awesome and becoming seriously hardcore.
speedy...speedy... holy. I cannot imagine hitting the miles you do in a week.
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