Super Double Secret Workout

Not sure why I even bother posting my workout today, because I was asked to keep it to myself. However, as I was running, it kept me entertained thinking about how I could write about it without breaching my contract with Sisson.

The group got the option to take today off, or run 7 miles easy today, then a track workout on Thursday. As I'm out of town on business on Thursday, I asked to do the workout today and take Thursday off. Sisson had me do a different workout than Thursday's planned workout - a supre secret workout. I'd be his guinea pig.
(As P. Terranova only does Tuesday workouts with us, I invited him to come along)

So here's what I did.
Ran a 2 mile warmup with Paul out and back on the trail, then began the workout on the Austin Highschool track.

The workout had simple rules:
Run X distance at X pace, followed by X distance at X pace, with X recovery time in between. Repeat until you can go no more. Once you MISS any of your goal paces by more than 2 seconds, you're done.

So I set off.
X Pace, X Pace, X recovery, X Pace, X Pace, X recovery, X Pace, X Pace, X recovery, X Pace, X Pace, X recovery...

Finally, 56 minutes in, I had a brain malfunction and got mixed up on where I was in the workout, so I tried to make up time, but finished 3.5 secs off pace; which, according to the rules was a Disqualification so I stopped myself.

My legs had a good amount of gas left, maybe another 10-15 minutes in them, who knows, because I was definitely starting to lose energy. But you live and die by rules, or there's no point in having rules in the first place.

Sisson tol me afterwards in an email that the workout was as much Psychological as it was Physiological, so I guess my brain hiccup was what he was looking for??

But when I got home, and looked at my splits on my watch, I noticed that I had infact NOT disqualified myself. Which meant I had a double brain hiccup thinking I was off pace, but really wasn't, so sped up to a pace that I wasn't needing, so as I was actually much faster and not slower by 2 seconds, I should have been allowed to continue.

Bummer. Better luck next time.

Once home, I was more tired than I thought, because I closed my eyes (for a couple of minutes) and woke up 45 mins later! Ooops! (but it still wasn't even 8:30am so it's all good!)

Total workout: X miles, at X average pace for 56 minutes + 2 mile warm up. No Warm Down.