Another track day - with photos

Between the last two training programs I've worked through - both from the same place - there has been a whole order of magnitude of difficulty. The 45 minute 10K program seemed easy, and I was confident all the way through it. The 40 minute 10K plan, which I slightly modified to try for a 20 minute 5K, has been TOUGH. Today had me looking at 10 x 400 at 84 seconds per 400. Uh, fast? Turned out I only really got one at that speed; most of them were around 90 seconds:

1 - 1:27
2 - 1:25
3 - 1:28
4 - 1:31
5 - 1:30
6 - 1:33
7 - 1:33
8 - 1:33
9 - 1:35
10 - 1:33

And I got my heart rate above 170 today, which I don't think I've done since I've been tracking it on this watch.



I love these track intervals, though - they make such a cool graph in Garmin Training Center:



After the workout, I pulled out my camera for a few shots. Here's resting on the side of the football field, rocking the new shoes:



And a sign that we had to run by on every lap:



Nice, huh? This on the same campus where I saw this Apostrophe Catastrophe...