beige_alert | cracking the code

I think I'm learning the way this works. Any workout plan the coach has that includes the word "interval" is going to hurt. "Tempo" means the workout will hurt. Tempo intervals, yes, for sure. If the coach explains the plan and asks, "does that sound easy or hard?" that probably means it's going to be hard. But we do this because it's fun! Or something like that! We're convinced it's fun! It's fun sprinting down a straight, coming to the end, standing up and coasting and leaning way over in the turn way out in the outside lane because it turns out you are going pretty fast. Keep up the training and you can go faster, and going fast is highly prized among speed skaters, as you might imagine given that our sport literally has "speed" right in the name.