Clif Bars

I just discovered an awesome flavor of Clif Bars, white chocolate macadamia nut! If I can't eat a white chocolate macadamia cookie before my run, a Clif Bar will certainly do. A Clif Bar supposedly has more nutritional benefits anyway.I instagramed it to showcase its overpriced awesomeness.

Look at that deliciousness. 

To feel like I deserved that bar, I decided to go for a speed workout. Nothing like intervals to kick off an awesome training season! Granted, I still haven't got a plan, but I'm getting there. I have a general idea of what I want from a plan, and if I can't find it, I will create it . . . soonish.

So I modified the Yasso 800s today to get in some speed work. By modified, I just mean that I reduced the repeats to 4. I think technically, I'm supposed to repeat it more, but I wanted to go back home and eat lunch while watching How I Met Your Mother.

I suited up (in running clothes) and ran a mile to Beebe Lake, an artificial lake, on campus. And proceeded to run laps around it. I also didn't set my watch for an interval workout beforehand and lapped the watch manually. Hence, the weird 0.51miles distance intervals and more than four minutes of rest, when I started zoning out and forgot to start the next lap.

I normally suck at speed intervals, because they stress me out. But I actually got it done! 

The best part was that I was able to keep the speed up, more or less, even though the loop wasn't flat. 

Since the school track is open only during lunch time, I never use it. Instead, I usually run on a flat stretch of road. But today, I just felt like looping on the uneven terrain of the trail next to the lake. 

A rough estimate of where my intervals might have been. The point is, that it wasn't flat. 

Now I'm ready to take a slow easy run tomorrow that I earned. 

What are some of you guy's favorite speed workouts?