5.5 Miles on the W&OD Trail - Speed Intervals

I don't know why I ran intervals again today.  Really I should have been doing a distance run - long and slow.  But this morning I learned how to program an interval workout and download it to my Garmin Forerunner and I was dieing to try it out.  And I must say, it's pretty cool.  I just push the button to start the workout and the Garmin tells me what to do.  And it nags me if I'm going too fast or too slow.  I really like it, and now I'm going to set up programs for all of my workouts and then I just have to follow the directions!

The workout itself was pretty good, except I was really tired at the end and couldn't finish the last speed interval.  It shows in the chart.  But I like running intervals.  It breaks up the monotony of just plain running at a given pace.  But I'm promising myself here and now that I will follow the schedule in the future and do my long runs on the weekends.  Now (because I did the wrong run today) I'll have to do a long run on Monday after work.

The workout starts with a slow mile followed by alternating half mile intervals.  In the future I'm going to program it to be a half mile warm-up and then half mile fast runs followed by quarter mile slow runs.  The half mile slow runs were too long.

By the way, the Brooks continue to be very comfortable and seemingly will not require a breaking in period.