Long day today so when I got home there was no daylight left to do this workout in the usual spot around Lake Montebello so I was forced to do it on the trainer. The basement is not my favorite training facility, but at least the trainer makes it easy to meter the effort as well as recovery. I love that whenever I have a VO2 Max workout my coach writes, “These are hard.” Yes. Yes they are. Though they’re not destroying me. The last half of the final interval hurt a bit. I did, however, decide that if I’m going to have to do VO2 Max stuff inside on the trainer, that I need a new, more aggressive playlist. With the exception of Jaylib’s “Survival Test,” the swagger of the hip-hop I usually have on doesn’t really get me amped up enough for these harder efforts. Cake’s “The Distance” is going in the right direction. Suggestions?