I did my first track workout of the season on Friday, a couple sets of 4x400m, a 1500m classic. It's hard to imagine that this workout is the first of many that will eventually lead to Olympic standards; only the very last 400m (57.x sec)was at the pace needed to run a time of 3:35, and the others weren't even close (60+ sec).
I know better than to expect much out of the first track session, and really the session wasn't especially tough. The real doozies are still ahead, and that's when splits will matter. Most importantly right now is that I'm healthy and without injury, and I'm ahead of where I was last year in training.
I booked my flights up to Seattle for an indoor 5km on February 10th. I can't wait to get up there for another 5km; my race there last year was a little ambitious, and blew up in my face in a big way...
I'm not going to do anything stupid this time (like try to lead the last four kilometres).
