Meriden 1000s
Nineteen months: According to my spreadsheet, that is how long it had been since I had seen this workout. I was scared going in. I remembered the darkness and the feeling that I would trip and roll down that last hill. In reality, it didn’t turn out to be so bad.
We did the short warm-up from the Lake Austin RunTex, and then we did the drills in the dark. We were trying to be quite, but some car that was passing by did not think we were getting out of his way fast enough, so he honked a bunch of times. Good morning, everyone!
The drill was five laps around the block. I think all the core work I’ve been doing has paid off because I felt a lot more stable on the downhill sections. My times were not superb, but I did speed up each time, and I wasn’t terribly worn out. I had: 4:21, 4:10, 4:08, 4:08, 4:05.
After those, we did five up and three back on 11th. Gilbert told us to race each other on the second backwards one, so that was a new twist. It was certainly tiring!
After jogging back to RunTex, I did a handful of stretches, and that was it for the day.