Best Speed Workout in a LONG time

Monday was an off-day.

Woke up Tuesday at 5 to drive downtown to meet the morning run group for an easy 7.25 Miles. Lunch workout included lots of pullups, crawling pushups, burpees, dips, some upper body and abs.

Today (wed) I cringed when the alarm went off at 5 again and I crawled out of bed not at all ready to be up yet. Thank goodness I was meeting CV or I would not have drug my butt out of bed. After the drive downtown I hopped on the treadmill. I have not been doing very well with the speed workouts at all. I feel like I just can't hit the paces, have not been mentally dialed in or was just too plain fried to do the workouts. Furthermore for some reason the new treadmills at the gym paces have just felt harder than before which I am not sure why.

Once at the gym, I hopped on the treadmill next to CV and planned to do 6 - 800's at 9.5 (6:19 pace) with 0.1 M walked recoveries. Yet as I felt better than planned I added a few more and upped the speed for some shorter bonus intervals.

Actual
1 Mile Easy
800 -1 (6:19 pace) with 0.1 M walking recovery
800 -2 (6:19 pace) with 0.1 M walking recovery
800 -3 (6:15 pace) with 0.1 M walking recovery
800 -4 (6:11 pace) with 0.1 M walking recovery
800 -5 (6:07 pace) with 0.1 M walking recovery
800- 6 (6:00 pace) with 0.1 M walking recovery
800- 7 (6:00 pace) with 0.1 M walking recovery
400-1 (6:00 pace) with 0.1 M walking recovery
400-2 (5:53 pace) with 0.1 M walking recovery
200-1 (5:43 pace) with 0.05 M walking recovery
200-2 (5:27 pace) with 0.05 M walking recovery
200-3 (5:13 pace)
Short Cooldown

Total Mileage - 6.5 Miles