It's all relative

AM: 4 miles on treadmill. Them weights: chest, tris, shoulders

PM: warmup then 5-mile Fartlek. Very underrated workout. Need to do more of these...

AM: 10 miles in John Chestnut

PM:5 miles to check out the new job- man I live close... for better or worse.

AM: Track workout.  Light workout given my high intensity workouts scheduled for Saturday and Sunday.  No watch, just a track and 5k race pace speeding up as I went along to strider speed to finish the last 3.  Workout was: 3x200, 600, 500, 400, 300, 200, 100, 100 with 100-200m jog in between each item.  The last three items I did at strider pace, not sprinting.  Pace was at 5:10-5:15 for the first item according to those running near me, and then I just went by feel trying to mimic it.  

So, today was different.  Woke up at 3:30am and couldn't sleep, and decided to join RunVie for their 5:30am Tuesday track run which I've never been to.  I got there and only recognized 3 people and only really knew 1 of them and no one at my pace, so that was a tough start.  At the end of the workout, I felt as if I could do more and faster, which was what I wanted to feel after, but I'm very surprisingly feeling quite sore in my feet/achilles, which is usually a bad sign for me.  The plan is still to do both 5ks this weekend, but I suppose my body dictates what actually happens.  I'll try a shakeout later today likely and/or take a day off.  

AM: 4 miles on the treadmill then chest, tris, shoulders.

PM: 8 miles.

Planned day off. First day back to work!

PM: 8 miles, 7 striders

AM: 5 miles, a couple of striders (6).

PM: Likely skipping the track 5k. Game time decision I guess. I suppose in the end I want to be very healthy for the winter, and I am starting to learn my body now entering my 7th year of running (it'll be 6 years ago on Tuesday since I started! Happy run birthday to me!), Therefore, I can kind of tell running two hard 5k races in 12 hours isn't the best idea at least currently. Although it'd be nice and more mangeable to PR on a race with tons of faster runners and a rubber track, on the other hand it's the dead of summer in Florida. In other words, I'd be a fool to expect to run a top-notch race with such heat, humidity, and dewpoint.

I am feeling much more relaxed with this decision and can chase a PR later on in the season and can just have fun tomorrow 's road 5k instead. Fortunately, tomorrow's course is probably the only truly accurate one in the series, so at least I can gauge my fitness a bit and start comparing some numbers to last year to update my expectations for my half and marathon coming up.