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I had the dreaded 3 x 5' @ 114% on the trainer this morning and my run at lunch will include 15 mins @ T-pace.  I'm predicting an unproductive afternoon at work....

Yikes.  That sounds like a tough bike workout.  I find it difficult mentally, well physically too, after about 3 minutes at or above 110%.  That seems to be my tipping point.  5MP for me is around 120% so I would struggle with that workout.

Ha, that's funny.  If you go read the notes I put on the bike workout you will see that I also find the 3 min mark the tipping point.  

I'm right at 120% for 5MP too and I have a really hard time with it.  At the end of the 3rd one I pretty much collapsed on my aerobars and just laid my head there.  My wife and the dogs were looking at me somewhat worried.

I just finished up the T-pace run, it was surprisingly not bad.

Day-um, 4 miles @ 6:22?  The best mile from my T-pace run was 6:53!  Nice work!

Eh, it's relative, right? (the girls I was running with were doing a little race pace tune-up for their 20 miler this weekend, just chattin' away. Heh)

15' is an interesting T workout. Was that the full workout or was there something else involved?

A big goal our coach had for this M build was improving my Aerobic Threshold and I think it's working!

15' easy warmup, 15' @ T-pace, 15' easy CD.

I'm just getting back into harder run efforts after spending the last 2.5 months just doing easy paced runs.

I found that article I was talking about: http://www.runnersworld.com/high-school-training/running-the-numbers

His specific website is not really useful to us but I find it really interesting! 

Yup - that was me. I am slammed with (good and fun) work stuff at the moment but will try to say more about that tomorrow when I get a chance if you are interested?

Sounds like lots of good running going on today - I also had a good one: 4x800s @ 6:00 steady pace, then 4x400 descending 3 seconds per interval starting at 5:50. I went 1:25, 1:22, 1:19, and then 1:15 (oops!). The good thing is that this was not an all-out effort, and even though I am aware from experience that the next 3 seconds is a BIG jump, I felt like I easily had a sustainable <1:12 in me, and sub 1:10 400s are still in there somewhere. It took all the restraint I had to stick with the plan and not just absolutely hammer the last interval. As it was I ran it a little too quickly, but it is really hard when you make the turn for the post on that final 400 of the day!

Nice work, especially on at least attempting to hold back.

We always joke about the desire to haul azz on the last rep. One of my friends decided he would go against the grain and go hard on the second to last, you know, just to change things up

I'm interested to know more about what you have to say about the hills. I understand conceptually for sure. Maybe the only place I feel I am naturally talented is my ability to run hills, so I am curious to see how that would come into play.

Oh man Chris, I really hope things pass on their own!  Fingers crossed for you.

Noooooooo!!!!  I really hope it moves through on its own.  Anxiously awaiting your update.

ETA: apparently while I was typing this up, you were updating us.  So glad to hear surgery is not required.  Hope everything turns around quickly.

Originally posted by ChrisM No surgery, yay!!! Everything seemed to clear confirmed by a pass thru (?) test and ct. Getting out of the hospital today. Took out the NG tube- google it for the non docs- that was bloody awful. But at least I could eat niow , never thought gello would taste so good. Will have to figure out how to come back from this smartly without too much interruption in race prep. The clear liquids help the race weight issue.

Awesome!

I mentioned NG tube to my wife and she made a face and muttered something along the lines of "poor bugger..."

I can't even think about it yet.  Too cold and too much crap on the roads.