Went to speed work last night. This has been going on for about 6 weeks at Fleet Feet, but I haven't been able to attend because of my training group. That is over (yay!) until August when the next one starts up. I thought this might do me some good. Boy oh boy! I've never really done anything more than straights and curves on a track (and it was more in a "joking" manner with my friends), so this was much harder than I anticipated.
Ran .70 over to the park for warm-up - 9:39 pace.
Kyle, our "coach" (really he is a FF employee, but he knows his stuff) told us to run about 5 seconds off of our "goal pace". We were supposed to do 10-400's with a 1:40 jogging break in the middle. Since I hadn't been to one of these before, I had no clue what he was talking about. I think he will do an analysis of me next week (if I go back!) where he makes me run a mile as fast as I can or something like that. He didn't do it last night because he had another one-time training group on proper running form. The sad thing is, I could probably benefit from that program too. Anyways, I said I'd just stick to the back with the slowest people, but I ended up leaving them because they were too slow. I ran towards the middle-back of group 3 of 4. I ran a hard-comfortable pace and didn't look at my watch at all during it.
Here are my splits. Slow, slow, slow, slow, slow.
1:45 (1:40) 1:55 (1:40) 2:00 (1:40) 2:07 (1:40) 2:02 (1:40)
3 minute break
2:06 (1:40) 2:09 (1:40) 2:07 (1:40) 2:11 (1:40) 1:49 (1:40)
I think one of the "advantages" of having a Garmin is so that you can look at it while you run to know if you are hitting your desired pace or not. I didn't look at mine a single time during the run, just got all the splits when it was over. This was all effort based. I don't even know what pace these are (approx??). Is there a way to figure that out?
This was a hard workout for me. The temp was hovering right at 90* and the humidity was high. We were out in the open with no shade to block the blistering sun. I definitely whined a little during it, but I do think I'll be back. When it was all said and done, I had "fun".
We took a shortcut back to FF through a creek and the girl right in front of me stepped on a snake! ICK!
Today (Tuesday) my mama/best friend/buddy/pal/partner-in-crime leaves for Colorado for a week! To say that I'm a bit jealous would be an understatement. I'm pretty sure this is the first time she has ever left Huntsville, AL without me at her side. I'm not a happy camper. I know she'll have a good time, but I wanna gooooo toooooooooooo. Wahhhhh... Anyways, I'll tell her to wave hello to Carolyn, Michelle, and Nan as she passes over!
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