More speed work and a crap ton of miles
Ramble is in the rear-view mirror, and I've manged some hard speed sessions the last two weeks. The Tuesday after the race I did 6x300 - this was probably the easiest one to hit my marks at. Easy morning laps down at AhS. I did a 6.3 miler Thursday, then 2x800; 4x200 workout last Saturday. The 800s felt easy at 5k pace. And the 200s felt doable.
This tuesday brought pain. 6x400 at mile pace. The morning was foggy and cool - and nobody was around at 6:30 at the track. I started these out at 1:25 (5:40 pace); but they crept up to 1:28-1:29 for the last 2. The one minute off just makes it hard to recover. My next interval session in Monday 10x200s - which should be pretty doable. But then, next weekend is a 2x800 at mile pace stuff that is a bit frieghtening to think about. Those are followed by 2x400 and 2x200s. Ughh.
In more fun news. Yesterday I did my mercenary legs for RagnarCC. Since I had to be back early saturday - i did leg3 (10.8 miles) at 12:15 yesterday; then leg 10 (van 2) of 4.6 miles at 6pm (hotdog fueled!); then back to van 1 for leg 15 (4.3 miles) at 9:30 at night. The 10.8 miler was hot and hilly and hard - but overall pretty doable. The run at 6 was the hardest - legs were not expecting another 5 miles at that point - but the pace wasn't bad. The night run was slower - but footing and directions are more of a challenge - and the legs felt a bit loser. Someone will have to pickup my 3 miler leg (#27) - probably about now.
Overall - over 19.5 miles - so a good bit of training - although i'm not sure if that really adds up to anything useful. If I'm smart - i'll should try and keep that long run mileage up every 2-3 weeks so it's not a total shock when i have to 13 in July to start marathon training.
This tuesday brought pain. 6x400 at mile pace. The morning was foggy and cool - and nobody was around at 6:30 at the track. I started these out at 1:25 (5:40 pace); but they crept up to 1:28-1:29 for the last 2. The one minute off just makes it hard to recover. My next interval session in Monday 10x200s - which should be pretty doable. But then, next weekend is a 2x800 at mile pace stuff that is a bit frieghtening to think about. Those are followed by 2x400 and 2x200s. Ughh.
In more fun news. Yesterday I did my mercenary legs for RagnarCC. Since I had to be back early saturday - i did leg3 (10.8 miles) at 12:15 yesterday; then leg 10 (van 2) of 4.6 miles at 6pm (hotdog fueled!); then back to van 1 for leg 15 (4.3 miles) at 9:30 at night. The 10.8 miler was hot and hilly and hard - but overall pretty doable. The run at 6 was the hardest - legs were not expecting another 5 miles at that point - but the pace wasn't bad. The night run was slower - but footing and directions are more of a challenge - and the legs felt a bit loser. Someone will have to pickup my 3 miler leg (#27) - probably about now.
Overall - over 19.5 miles - so a good bit of training - although i'm not sure if that really adds up to anything useful. If I'm smart - i'll should try and keep that long run mileage up every 2-3 weeks so it's not a total shock when i have to 13 in July to start marathon training.
posted by smente at 9:27 AM
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