Lotta speedwork today

RUN 8.2 miles in 70 mins, 12x [2 min fast/1 min recover]. Covered 0.31 miles in 2 mins, 6:22 pace.
BIKE 20 miles in 80 mins, 4x7 mins hard, then a pushed commute in
COMMUTE 3 miles, pushed this too because I was running late

Taking Monday off (as off as sitting around driving and traveling can be for me) was paying off. Today's speedwork was much better than expected. For some reason, 2 mins hard sounded so damned easy! I thought maybe a 400m? Nope. More like 500 or 600! This was a pleasant surprise that kept me going.

It was a cooler morning, still some wind but on a track that comes and goes fast. I was surprised at my pace and ability to run being so tired. Watching the sun rise through the clouds, I heard Nina Simone's Feeling Good:

Birds flyin' high, you know how I feel
Sun in the sky, you know how I feel
Breeze driftin' on by, you know how I feel
It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me.
Yeah, it's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me, ooooooooh...
And I'm feelin' good.

It is a new dawn, a new day. It's JULY! And after this past weekend I have some new things to focus on, some re-directing to do, and some goals to hit. Sounds like I need lots more OWS practice, and there's an opportunity on Weds evenings. I need to make it work.

I did the ride indoors due to a time crunch, and the desire to really get the full 7 mins in at the goal pace. I hated to ride indoors, but it wasn't so bad. I figure if I had time to bemoan it, I wasn't working hard enough.

Tired unmotivated day. Going to work is getting hard, it's like I'm at the bottom of a hill I'll never crest. Not that I'll give up, but more like I know I'll fail to get there. It's wearing on me.

Lots of negative thinking too, I think that's the fatigue talking.