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January 4, 2005
Round and round we go
Today I realized how much longer the day is when you wake up "normal" time instead of at 9 or 10, as I've been doing! I did my short pre-workout loop this morning and felt kind of groggy--probably because I hadn't been running at 7am in almost 2 weeks. Once I got back and showered and everything, I felt more awake and was actually looking forward to going back to school. (It helps that I'm only taking one class this month.) The class was actually really great--it's going to be a lot of work but I think it will be very worthwhile.
I took a nice nap in the middle of the day and then got ready to go to the track workout. My friend and I got lost warming up and almost missed the start of the workout, but luckily some nice dog-walkers pointed us to Tufts. The workout was a fairly easy one to mark the transition from shorter stuff to longer workouts for the next few months: 3 by a mile, starting at tempo pace and getting 10 seconds faster each time (only 200 jog in between), then 2 by 200 at repeat pace.
Although my partners in crime were grumbling about how slow they were going to do the first one, we were aiming for about 7 minutes just to make sure that it really felt easy. Of course we did 6:51, then 6:41, then 6:35 or so. I never felt too awful, but I was getting tired of running around in circles. We were pretty pleased because we kept it at a do-able pace the whole time, as we were supposed to. I know the times aren't "fast" by most people's standards, but it wasn't bad for the first track workout in Jan.
I got completely burned on the 200s we had to do at the end. Four of us were doing them together, and the three others lean towards being short-distance specialists and I certainly do not. They took off and ran probably 34 seconds (on tired legs) for the first one and 32 for the second. I was about 5-6 seconds behind each time. No matter how fast I tried to run, there was nothing I could do to improve my turnover! It was brutal. But in a fun way, so I was happy. Now I'm just tired!
Posted by becky at January 4, 2005 9:19 PM
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Good workout! (I can even picture it, because I've run a 10,000 on that track.) Too bad I couldn't be there to run with you, then you would have had someone behind you on the 200s!
Posted by: Alison at January 4, 2005 11:37 PM