Like Speedwork, Almost

One of the reasons I drifted into ultra marathons is that I had problems with speedwork. I found that I could run 20 miles at an easy pace with no problems but a hard 5K would have me limping for a week. It got worse with the back injury. But I think things had gone way too far down the slow road.

As I start preparing for Burning River, I need to put for more effort on the running. After struggling with the motivational part of it for a while, I finally made it to the track this morning. I had no intention of really pushing, but I did want to see if I could still move in something like a running form. Three easy warm miles and four easy 800M repeats later, I felt pretty good. The times were really bad, but I felt I had pushed myself a bit without causing any injury pain. Now if I can just keep repeating that.