The need for speed

As a runner and perhaps more as racer, we all have a quest for speed. Go faster. Make our legs turn over faster. Pump our arms more to force our legs to turn over faster.

This morning, I was making my own endeavor to push my legs to turn over a bit faster. I will be the first to admit; I am fighting an uphill battle. Getting older means my legs no longer respond to the training as well. I have been compensating for this by running more hill repeats for my interval training which is were a bit of irony comes into play. I am getting older, I am slowing down, I am using intervals to slow the progress which is an uphill battle, yet, I am using hill repeats to do it. 

Doesn’t it just sound like there is some irony in there somewhere.

Irony aside, I was happy to see my intervals were my best set so far. May be my legs are totally dead yet.

Stories from the trail,

The Cool Down Runner