I head over to the local high school track only during my taper period. Other times I can find some place more fun or convenient to run. Today was an hour run, jog over, 4 X 1 mi. at a little higher than Ironman effort and jog back. Looks like this:

See those 4 bumps, they’re sub 7 minute miles. I do them to remind myself what it feels like to run after doing all those Ironman jogging miles and to remind myself that I won’t be running anything close to that speed on race day.