Notes
Progression starting at 6:00 and cutting 10"/mile until unable to do so. I was not feeling particularly focused this morning with the prospect of telling Richey about potentially going for the Fairview job. Got it off my chest after the warm up and told him it's what I wanted to do. It only marginally cleared my mind but luckily with the progression I would have time to engage since the first two miles are practically gimmes. Coasted along for the early miles until we started the 5:30 mile up 55th St. I knew it would require a bit more effort and saw 5:27 on my watch for the most part until we crossed in front of the rec center and saw I was close to sub-5:20. That was pretty much the only mile I really messed up and I was able to corral things back to the proper range with a 5:18. I went back and forth with Charlie as we went down cherryvale and at times we were edging close to 5:00 so I would back off to make it closer to 5:10. However just before the mile lapped and we were on the last little downhill section before turning onto baseline I struck out to gain some momentum. Started off the last mile strong but the mounting effort was catching up to me and I would have to fight for a sub-5 mile here. I was slowing but ever so slightly and was able to close off the mile with the last couple tenths up 55th to a 4:56. This was the first time I was able to crack that 5:00 barrier in one of Richey's progressions so I'm really proud of that. I've gotten a lot of momentum back coming off of last week.