Speed Work in the Rain

So I have penciled out a training program for the next 16 weeks or so until race day!
And I have been within reason of it so far.

Now it has not kicked in to full gear yet.  This week I was traveling.  The objective was to try to at least get on the treadmill while I was away.  And I successfully did that at least 2 days.  You get tired after a while and the early morning hotel treadmill is hard.  Especially when you add in late night dinners and time changes.  All week I was saying things like - it's 8pm and in Eastern time it is 9pm and just a few days ago it was 10pm....  I was good and got to bed around 930 10pm each night so I was reasonable in that regard.

So today I had written SPEED work...  and even though it's not now... it has been raining all morning.  I wasn't going to do it.  and then I realized - it could rain race day... I better get used to it.  So off to the track I went.

The warm up got me.  I would guess my hydration is low.  I would guess my salt and fat intake from the week is high.  And I haven't done much skipping, grapevine, shuffle work in a while....  Once around the track I went.  And then a little jog.

Warmed up - now for the fun part...
30 seconds to get from one end to the other - quarter of the track.  I managed that OK.  Although I know my speed has been faster in the past.  Then 3 minutes to walk back to the beginning.  DID THIS 4 TIMES.

Then some whole track work.  Get around the track in 3 minutes with a 30 second rest.  it should be closer to a minute rest but did not have patience to reset the timer on my watch.  I did that twice.  And did OK with that.  I wanted to do that 4 times as well.  But my mojo was off at that time.

TOO MUCH RAIN perhaps.  Or a little overheated.

So tomorrow I am looking to find 7 to 10 miles in me.  we shall see how that goes.