Fartlek Run. 8 miles easy w/ 8 x 30 sec. @ 10K-3K pace. 4:57 am, 62°F, 47% humidity, wind 6 SSE. My Garmin battery was dead this morning, so I don't have any stats. I didn't realize the battery was dead until shortly after I started my run. I worried about timing my 30 sec. fartlek intervals. My old cell phone had a stop watch function, but my current cell phone doesn't and the time on my cell phone doesn't show seconds. I would have been better off with my regular analog watch than with my dead Garmin, but I didn't want to go back home and change. I had just about resigned myself to just counting out the 30 seconds, but then I realized that my not-Pod shows seconds. It shows the time elapsed and the time remaining in a song in minutes and seconds. So when it got time to do the intervals, I pulled the not-Pod out of my arm band and used it. It was kind of hard to see the numbers while running because they're quite small, but I managed. The time between intervals was kind of inconsistent because I had to make sure I started each fast interval when there was at least 30 seconds remaining in the current song. However, I think the time between fast intervals was roughly 2 minutes. I didn't start the intervals until I was about 5 miles into the run because the 5th mile is the toughest on that particular route because it's mostly up hill. So I started the intervals right after I finished that up hill section. After the 2nd interval, I had to stop and wait for a traffic light for quite a while. A guy who was running came along and crossed against the light. I'll do that if the light is for a small side street, but this was a major intersection and I don't take any chances with major intersections. Anyway, he crossed the way I was going, so he was ahead of me when I finally crossed the street. I think he was going about my easy pace because I gained some on him each time I did an interval. I finally passed him on about the 5th or 6th interval, but just barely, because he caught up to me shortly after I slowed back down. I talked with him for a minute - regular runner stuff like how far are you going today and what are you training for - until it was time for me to start another interval, then I left him behind. After I got home, I did the level 1 shred. In the good news department, Thing 2, aka Shaggy, walked to seminary this morning. In the bad news department, I think my daughter has the same sickness that my husband has. She's coughing and had a low grade fever last night. I'm keeping her home from school today, but my husband is home sick again too, so I'll leave the two sickies together and go to work. However, I'm feeling just a little bit congested myself. I'm hoping I can get by with just a mild case of this.
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