Another one bites the dust

Another week down. 64 more miles. As I said before, a couple more weeks of 60's then up to the 70-80 range. It was a good week of training. I did a 3 mile tempo on Tuesday with 8x 200 afterwards. The 200's felt great. I love the feeling of acceleration through the curve and then running strong down the straight. It is nice to feel relatively fast. On Wednesday I had an interesting 8 miler. I ran up toward the lake and took a road that I have been curious about for a long time. It led to a development of very expensive-looking houses. There were some log cabin style houses and it looked a bit like the US. At the end of the development there was a trailhead which led to a whole network of trails that are around Lake Kurondo. It is amazing how many trails there are in this area. The only problem is that this time of year the trails tend to grow over and are covered with spider webs all through the summer. My first year here I tried to ignore them but I was coming back from runs with shockingly big red marks all over my body. So I decided to concede the trails to the spiders for the summer and wait for the first big frost to kill them off. Thursday's workout was 1000 at cruise interval pace 200 rest and then a 600 at maximum aerobic pace x 2. It was an interesting workout and the fast part actually felt better than the slow part One of the interesting things about my coach's workouts is that they are at a variety of paces. When I ran in college everything was all out, as fast as you could go for that distance. The workouts I am doing now seem to make much more sense. It has been a great help to work with "Tinman" It makes me accountable and feel like I am not running in a vacuum.