Wednesday Nights at W-L

For speed work, I like visiting the track at Washington-Lee HS on Wednesdays. There are usually several local running clubs that do interval workouts here. The concentration of other runners picking up their knees and pumping their elbows is infectious and motivates me to push harder.

That said, running 400-meter splits is the hardest running I will do as part of my training and, quite frankly, it scares me a bit. At least twice I have had my training for major races come to naught because I pulled a muscle doing these sprints. I try to warmup and stretch properly, but always know that a pulled hamstring could be just one step away.