friday, january 08, 2010
Running Log/Tempo Run
Distance: 4 milesTime: 28:00
Comments: With my beloved Crimson Tide playing in the BCS National Championship game in the evening, a workout with the group wasn't about to happen. But I wanted to get some kind of workout in - if for no other reason than to burn off the anxiety.
So I settled on a kind of fartlek/interval workout hybrid. I set out to do a mile at a good pace, accelerate over the next two and do the last flat out. That was the plan, anyway.
The first mile came in at 7:15 and was really uneven pace-wise throughout. I rested three or four minutes and set off. In the second mile felt a lot stronger and more consistent and hit 6:49. On the third I started very fast and flagged considerably on the back side, the last portion was guts alone. 6:30 flat.
But shaving 20 seconds off the last one wasn't going to happen so I just tried to keep it under marathon pace and put it at 7:21. Overall, an interesting experiment but we'll see what Coach says.
Conditions:
Hour: 3:00 p.m.Injury update: The hip didn't like this one bit. It was achy the whole way and damned unhappy afterward.
Surface: concrete/asphalt
Weather: sunny
Temperature: 68 degrees
Humidity: 21 percent
Wind: calm
Location: Chandler, Arizona
Shoes: Pearl iZUMi Surge+
Con Musica
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