Keeping Up

I ran 5x5:00 on Tuesday at 1:40-1:48 lap pace with 3:00 easy in-between and a mile warmup and cooldown. I was tired from the weekend. I barely made the pace but I did! I am wondering if I am not successfully "training up" to this distance that I've been doing for 4 weeks now. I wonder if it is one of those overall capacity for work things, like when Lance Armstrong wasn't able to win until he went from 180 to 160 because of his body's maximum capacity for work endurance at each weight. I also can't expect what I'll feel like the same or next day. After this near defeat at the effort on Tuesday, I felt great the next day. But at night last night for an easy 8 miles, I eked out a walk and that was all. I lifted my one time a week in the morning, that was probably why. I DID do very well in intervals this morning. So much of the unexpected, maybe this is a favorable omen. I'm shocking my body out of the routine that's for sure. But it is definitely up for it. My legs aren't dead, that's different. I am only specifically tired for a particular workout and there is usually a specific reason (the last workout). I learned my neighbor is doing Washington like me and is trying to do 3:35. So I'll have a pace partner, another favorable omen. Jim is moving up to longer intervals, 6x8:00's and 3x10's, and so will I.