Tuesday Track Workout (6.5mi)

In general, I find it normally takes about 48 hours for me, after a long run or some other extended period of strenuous physical activity, before the fatigue and soreness really sets in. So as I briefly mentioned in my previous posting, about an hour after my run on Monday, when I got back to my desk and had been sitting there for a little bit, I think the long run from Sunday morning finally really hit home... Despite my best efforts to rest up Monday night, on Tuesday, I was still feeling fairly fatigued and pretty sore. With the temperature reaching up into the 60 degrees however, despite the light rain, Jack sent an email out letting people know that he was intending to do the track workout a little bit on the earlier side at the Tufts outdoor track.

So despite my legs and brain pleading with me otherwise, I left work around 5:15 to fight through the route 2 rush hour traffic over the 45min/8 mile trek to Tufts. When I got there fortunately I found out everyone else was feeling fairly fatigued as well, so as a result I think Jack took it a little easy on us. The format was pretty simple; 400m repeats, with a 60s recovery in between, and a full lap recovery after every 4th. Repeat each set of these 4 times, for a total of 4mi of "speed" laps. Although my legs never felt great, the weather was relatively decent and I managed to get through the workout at close to my normal pace, so I felt pretty good about that. I was very eagerly looking forward to taking the next day and a half or so off tho...