Excerpt #2 from "Once a Runner"

"An interval workout," Cassidy once explained to a sportswriter,"is the modern distance runner's equivalent of the once popular Iron Maiden, a device as you know used by ancient truth seekers." Although overdistance laid the foundation, intervals made the runner racing mean. Quenton Cassidy liked them. Others preferred bamboo splinters under their nails. Everyone, the winner in his painful glory as well as the loser many seconds behind in his equally painful anonymity, suffers the physical bankruptcy of total oxygen debt." -p. 217

Arrgh interval workouts. None for me this summer - too hot. I'll cruise along at marathon race pace in my more intense workouts and hope that is enough to get me to a good place for the fall races.