I went to this book launch on Monday night. I am posting this photo now for absolutely no reason.

Last night was speedwork night. I normally do speedwork as my second workout of the week, but it got switched so I could meet my running coach at the Lulu Lemon running club tonight. (I’m scared.)

The plan was:

2k warm-up

3x1ks at 6:05-6:15 pace, 90 second cooldown in between

2k cool-down

These are the kind of workouts where a fancy watch would come in handy.

It was my dad’s last day in town, so I decided to run to my sister’s house so I could say good-bye to him. I mapped my route accordingly and picked 1k markers as best I could. Then I tried to run to each marker in 6 minutes. I think it worked.

The run: 7k in 45:53
The route: