I had an early flight yesterday and did not get home until late, so the entire day was a loss and then received texts last night with everyone canceling. So it was up to myself to get through the 4x800's. I hate the track and since I do not have access to a lighted track at 5 am, I opted for the road. The main streets where I live are lighted extremely well there is a flat section that would be good to complete these on with very little traffic. I had a well laid out plan that of course, did not happen. I warmed up for three miles but two miles into the warm up, I knew I was going to need a bathroom. I decided to see how it would go and the first went okay, but I was going to need a pit stop before it was over. I started heading home on the second one at the end I had to stop for a few minutes. With just under a mile from my house, it was going to take me a little while to get there. I started looking around to see if I had other options and remembered that there was one at a house under construction around the corner - SAVED! Used the POP and then ran about .25 warming back up and started the third, this was the least eventful of the four. Recovered for the time it took to run the third and headed in to the fourth. At this point my plan of using the flat road wasn't happening and this one had a little incline and a U turn. At the turn, I had to deal with a car and between the two I really started to struggle. My split for the first was off because I am garmin challenged, but close to 3:30-3:35, the others were 3:34, 3:34 & 3:40. Bummed about the last one, but this was SOOO much better than the other two attempts at this work out - one being about 6 wks ago and the other earlier this summer. These are the fastest I have ever run the 800s and in the last time in preperation for my last marathon the fastest I had run them was 3:45. So despite the stomach issues, it ended up being a pretty good run. Cooled down for 3 miles back home.
Avg Pace 8:28
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