It may be 'cross season, but I'm still getting my run on. Riding a bike is great and all, but there is something about flying over the ground on two feet that just feels so natural.  Oh, and there is a 5k I want to hit hard this coming weekend.

I've gotten in two runs a day, both yesterday and today.  In the mornings I've gone out for a 5-6 miler just to shake out the body (6:10-7:00 min/mile pace).  And then in the afternoons I've been heading to the track for a workout I call "The 13er"- Thirteen laps of blissful fun around the eternal oval.  Every other lap I do in 2:00 then 1:12-1:15, which translates to roughly 8:00 min/mile and 4:50-5:02/mile. The final lap I do the first 200m easy, then kick the last 200m home. It's not all out, but a good chance to work on some speed. But, while I may not be a world class marathoner, it's still kind of depressing that running 1/4 of 1 mile at Haile Gebrselassie's world record pace is no easy task.

Interestingly, while Haile is not veg* (to my knowledge), it seems his diet is limited to only vegetables and injera during training.  I'm going to have to look into eating this injera stuff...