Zilker soccer field laps
This morning I had one of my last couple speed sessions before the marathon. Because of the way the schedule is working out, I am running with the Monday/Wednesday group this week. I think there were three separate workouts today based on which races people are doing. I joined a group of about ten for the trip over to Zilker Park to run laps around the soccer fields. It was really, really dark again. We were a bit confused during the drills when we saw some slow moving vehicles on the road, but it turned out to be some folks getting a workout by pushing them.
Once we got down to business, the plan was to do four 2000-meter laps, faster than marathon pace, but not too fast. I didn’t have anyone running my speed, and my first lap turned out a lot slower than I expected. I picked it up from there and felt really good through the whole thing. My times were:8:28, 8:00, 7:45, 7:49.
I did the run back, snuck in a couple of stretches, and that was that. It’s almost time, and I’m feeling really good.