so i started back to track racing last tuesday night and went back for more punishment tonight. yikes - no leg speed at all. but, it's not like i've really trained any of that yet either - i'm taking a little bit of the hard way by putting in the road miles and then racing myself back in to shape at the same time - somewhat before doing any real structured interval training. the hardest part with that is struggling through the poor initial results before you can break through to real race fitness. i prolly won't be in real race shape until the middle of july, and that just feels *so* far away...