I showed up at about two minutes to 600 this morning, ready to do some serious fartleks (3 on, 1 recovery), and found out that there’d been some kind of mixup and we were heading to do circuit instead. Ah, well. I chatted to Jay on the way over, mainly about his good times at the Silicon Labs Relay the day before, and before you knew it we were on the track. Gilbert is still in Atlanta this morning after running Peachtree (he came in 52nd out of 55,000 people with a 32:24 overall time — too bad Bernard couldn’t have done this one as well, since he excels at these shorter races). Kenny Hill was there to take charge though, and soon had us doing our pylometric drills.

The group was a lot smaller than usual, more like its traditional size before Gilbert started writing books and flying all over the country. It felt odd, but was much appreciated when it came time to actually do the circuits, since there was almost no wait for equipment. We just did the traditional set of step-ups, push-ups, crunches, supermen, fences, and lunges, but with only 400M in between each one, which made them just fly by. I did four sets, but skipped the push-ups and crunches on the last one since I’m planning on beating myself up in core class this afternoon anyway. We finished up with a couple of 30-second “fast feet” turnover workouts, then headed back for the long recovery run.

At least, that was the theory. After the 2.65 mile cooldown run (we went the long way), Jay determined that we had a 7:30 mile and an 8:00 mile in there. Recovery is supposed to be more like 9:00-10:00. It was still a conversational pace; well, more like “hard conversational,” you could talk but sentences were getting shorter and a touch choppier at times, even though everything felt pretty comfortable. Not something to do often, but probably a good sign. Somehow.

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