I did my first run at Meriden today with Gilbert's Gazelles.  This was a pretty intense run.  We did 5 laps of the approximately 1K loop.  I ran together with Roger, Chris and Phil.  The up and downs are pretty difficult.  Running down the steep incline towards the end on Meriden, I could hear my feet slapping the pavement.  I need to figure out how to mellow that out.  Chris was dropping the pain on us basically at will, but it's always good to have a rabbit.  Then afterwards, he skipped the other exercises.  That's not even fair. 

I did pretty well on the first three, the last two laps were pretty weak.  I was getting dropped pretty easily.  I definitely need to extend my endurance.  I'm still not in good shape and I start to fade after two miles or so.  Hopefully workouts like these will help in that regard.  I'd like to get into the 17's for the Mardi Gras 5K, even if it's 17:59.999!