Intervals....

The dreaded 'i' word is back in the training vocabulary for this year.  We were treated to great temps last week and it was time to start thinking about putting the legs under some stress...Intervals are never exactly fun but are a necessary day or two of suffering to hit some higher intensity that us longer slow twitch types need to wake up.

The best and worst part of these particular intervals is that I do them from the house...so the access is silly easy.  This silly easy access also makes it too easy such that the guilt starts to hammer away at your conscience if you don't step up.

I usually do around 5 intervals on a hill that is about 300 ft in elevation.  It takes about an hour and as the legs / lungs start to feel better, the # of intervals will have to increase.

Today might have to be another interval day to snap the legs back - here is to finding the motivation for an hr of suffering!