Notes
Great workout today with Kris. Met at Nike and ran out to THRPD, did a loop, and then ran to the Nike campus track for 4 x 800m @ 5K race pace. Interesting day as we encountered several elite Nike athletes including Amy Begley (US 10K Champ 2009), Shalane Flanagan at the track (US 5K & 10K record holder) and of course Galen Rupp who was doing an easy run around the track during our 800's. It was quite the experience to blow right by him on the track. Granted, we were doing a workout and he was doing an easy run but still, how many people can say that they passed Galen Rupp on the track? Workout felt pretty good with each successive interval feeling better (and getting faster). Managed to cut down each interval by 2 seconds which was nice. Kris was right behind me on each of them by several seconds. He wants to run a fast 5K in the coming days and is tuning up for it with one last workout. Cooldown was 1 mile around nike back to the car. Slight rain during brief intervals during the course of the run/workout. Avg. Interval pace: 5:10