North Little Rock High

It was 69 degrees at 11 p.m. Central when I started 5X1000 meters at the North Little Rock High track, so perfect. I ran them, with three-minute, 200 intervals, in 5:03.9, 4:56.9, 4:49.3, 4:54.7, and 4:36.2.

I walked the Levy Loop on Saturday morning and the Maple Street Loop yesterday morning, and walked and jogged about five miles from Boyle Park on Saturday on Frost Bite's Hash run that included a dash across the No. 8 fairway at First Tee, a hike from the No. 8 green to the length of the No. 9 fairway, up into the parking lot and out onto University Avenue.

Raw speed was once my strength, but is now a quality that has deteriorated to near nonexistence. Cognizant of my proneness for well-planned pursuits surrendered shortly after their start, this morning I took the first steps toward speed enhancement. I progressed along the Levy Loop from a walk to easy jogs, short strides on the balls of my feet, to, near the end, dead sprints of 50 yards or so. The loop took me 22:50 to complete. I felt almost fast by the end; relatively fast. I ran 100 meters, considerably short of all-out, in 21.4 seconds as part of my warmup for tonight's 1000s.