First Workout

Sorry it has been such a long time since our last blog.... but I feel like none of you are too broken up about it. Today was the first workout of the summer: 25 min warm up, 2x ten min tempo, and 25 min cool down. Wally and I left from the house and started warming up down stream. We fell into a nice quick 6:35 clip during the warmup. We both felt pretty fresh from the easy day yesterday and were ready to do work on the tempo. We started off hammering right way. Our first mile was right in the range of 5:20-5:25 uphill and we felt it. We never really slowed or settled in the entire first interval, and when we finished the first ten min were were feeling it. The next one started in the same way and I told Wally after 3 min that I was going to settle into my tempo rythem and slow down a bit. Wally pressed on. Soon with 4 min to go I saw Wal again but he was walking at look pretty flushed. As soon as I was in ear shot he croaked desperately, "Where is the water?!". It turned out that a bug had flown into his throat and since it was so dry out and his mouth was so dry that the bug stuck to his throat and He was choking on it. He ended up having to take a drink out of a gross-ass pond off of the trail just to get it out. I finished out the tempo feeling pretty strong and surprisingly finding a second gear. We finished the run by cooling down through CU's campus, pretty tired but still hitting a nice steady pace.