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Thursday Jun 4, 2009 #
track 21:07 [4] 5.2 km (4:04 / km)
rhr:49 weight:133.5lbs
Thursday evening track group. And a nice evening it was. And there's is no other way to put it -- just a great workout. :-)
A good crowd, maybe 15 people, I was roughly in the middle as far as speed. The plan was 2x800, then 2x1000, then 2x800, with a modest amount of rest in between. Two weeks ago I did a similar workout with 800s from 3:19 to 3:23, so the goal this time was 3:20 or just a little less.
(distance, time, rest)
800: 3:17.9, 1:14
800: 3:16.4, 1:15
1000: 4:06.7 (800 in 3:17), 1:38 (including back to the start)
1000: 4:02.2 (800 in 3:14), 1:47 (including back to the start)
800: 3:13.5, 1:24
800: 3:09.9
All of them felt easy except the last one, easy meaning around threshold pace, no faster, could have kept going. Felt really good.
15 down, 35 to go.
A good crowd, maybe 15 people, I was roughly in the middle as far as speed. The plan was 2x800, then 2x1000, then 2x800, with a modest amount of rest in between. Two weeks ago I did a similar workout with 800s from 3:19 to 3:23, so the goal this time was 3:20 or just a little less.
(distance, time, rest)
800: 3:17.9, 1:14
800: 3:16.4, 1:15
1000: 4:06.7 (800 in 3:17), 1:38 (including back to the start)
1000: 4:02.2 (800 in 3:14), 1:47 (including back to the start)
800: 3:13.5, 1:24
800: 3:09.9
All of them felt easy except the last one, easy meaning around threshold pace, no faster, could have kept going. Felt really good.
15 down, 35 to go.
track 12:34 [3] 2.4 km (5:14 / km)
Five laps before, one after.
Note
So a little over two weeks into an 8-week training program. Not that there is a real program with workouts planned for the whole period. The goal is just to get in a lot of quality workouts, try to recover the feeling of what it means to race. And try not to get injured. And try to keep up the enthusiasm, because sometimes training hard just plain hurts.
So far, so good, for sure. I'm clearly reaping the reward already from the drop in the G. The hard workouts are still hard, but when the legs feel good, the workouts are so much fun (just have to think back to various times when a month or two would go by and not a single run felt good, but you keep at it because there is no alternative). At the end of this evening's, I was just ecstatic, rather than the usual more subdued glad-it's-over feeling.
But keeping the fingers crossed that I don't self-destruct. Then again, even if I do, in the meantime I'm enjoying the journey and not just looking forward to the destination.
So far, so good, for sure. I'm clearly reaping the reward already from the drop in the G. The hard workouts are still hard, but when the legs feel good, the workouts are so much fun (just have to think back to various times when a month or two would go by and not a single run felt good, but you keep at it because there is no alternative). At the end of this evening's, I was just ecstatic, rather than the usual more subdued glad-it's-over feeling.
But keeping the fingers crossed that I don't self-destruct. Then again, even if I do, in the meantime I'm enjoying the journey and not just looking forward to the destination.
Note
Back from the track, 5 minutes to change, and then off to see The Garden, yet another fine flick. I seem finally to have expunged from my memory some horrible flick I saw a week or so ago, can't even remember the name....
Got me thinking on the way home about local politics and what needs to be done. We are facing a mammoth budget deficit in town, mostly for reasons beyond our control, and it's not clear how we will deal with it. Town meeting in a week, time for some creative thinking.
Got me thinking on the way home about local politics and what needs to be done. We are facing a mammoth budget deficit in town, mostly for reasons beyond our control, and it's not clear how we will deal with it. Town meeting in a week, time for some creative thinking.