Notes
5k TT - Felt pretty good as of late. Been dropping weight decently well even though it felt like I plateaued for a week or two. Currently holding steady at 161.0 for 3 days straight. After 8 weeks of base building (25, 29, 33, 37, 30, 36, 39, 41). this feels good to be close to where I was last Jan 2020 (21:52 5k).
Really lucked out with the weather. A low pressure system moved in and dumped some rain and snow on Tucson. It was the perfect weather. mid 40s and overcast.
I warmed up, ~1.5 miles did 800m at 7:50-8 min pace (which felt SLOW), then 2 strides. The track was steaming when the sun came out.
I waited for the sun to get covered by some clouds and then got going. I was hitting 1:47s pretty well, then they became 1:48s... I just wanted to get through 2 miles before trying to push anything. At start of mile 3, I pushed a 1:45, and that felt hard and couldn't keep it up. Fell off that pace, but not far. I finished pretty strong, but had a little lull in the last 75m.
Over all time of 22:11. Better than my initial thought of 22:30.