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I’ve been trying to be diligent about doing intervals during my marathon training this time and according to the program I’ve (a little loosely) been following, this week I was to do a 10-20 minute warm up, a 1 mile interval with a 400 meter rest interval, a 2 mile interval with an 800 rest interval, followed by two 800s split up by a 400 meter rest interval, and finally followed with a cool down. Even though it seemed a little beyond me and I wasn’t feeling too spunky, I decided to tackle it before work this morning. After my warm up and the first mile interval, I wasn’t so sure I could do another two miles at that pace. I broke up the two miles into mile intervals again and while my pace had been pretty good I wasn’t quite feeling it so started to entertain skipping the 800s and running home at a normal pace. At about the same time, however, I realized I should have turned around in my out and back course much sooner to do this and still get home and cleaned up for work. Suddenly I was motivated to do my last two 800s and even a cool down at a quick pace. My pace definitely improved and I squeaked into work at a decent time. I guess I need to get too far from home to get me to speed up.