'Brick'

Pushing past mental (never physical) limitations is one of the hardest things one can do - also one of the bravest things one can do. It takes alot of guts to get out there and beat your body into submission - something I tend to do a bit too often. Nothing else satisfies unfortunately - some people meekly follow their dreams; whereas some of us mercilessly beat them down into submission. This is how I feel today. And it feels good. This quote by one of my favorite philosophers comes to mind : "Controlling others requires force. Controlling yourself requires power". (Laozi, Dao De Jing, verse 33).

I did a 3 way brick. This is after a two hour sleep last night. I am not complaining at all. I have had 3 great nights prior to last night.

320 stair sprints
7.5 tempo 53 minutes - excellent pace!
30 laps in the pool 24 minutes.

I have found that my legs perform tempo runs very well when they are are very warm - this is to mean that it takes over an hour of stairs to get me pumped (and motivated enough) to speed up sufficiently. I never perform as well on fresh legs. This is quite odd, because I do wonder how I'd do if I just ran a tempo to start with. I like long and hard - rather than short and fast. Oh well, maybe that says more about the sort of person I am as well :-)