05.14.2019 Twist it up Tuesday

6:00 AM - 4-1/2 mile run with WU, Strides, 2 x 1 mi @ sprint race pace, CD

Later today 1500 yd swim

Well, last spring, when it was cool in the morning and the days were getting light before my run workouts ended  I was seeing some really light and fast runs.  I thought that all my winter training was paying off and that I was getting faster.  Turned out that I just run faster in the daylight than I do in the dark and that I run faster in the cooler spring mornings.  Once Summer hit my run workouts were right back to where they had been the previous year.  My heart rate when up and my pace did too.  So, my best runs of the year are typically between March-May.  Come June running workouts take on a different strategy. In the fall I am usually ending the end of the season and working on recovery and taking time off so even with the cooler temperatures at the end of the year I do see good run days until the following spring.