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October 07, 2004
Whoops!
We made a big whoops this afternoon doing the workout. J decided that we should do quarters this afternoon since we are both planning on racing this Sunday. Thursdays are usually longer intervals, but he thought we should do shorter intervals for sharpening. The goal was to do 8x400 with a 200 jog right around race pace, which both of us determined to be about 90-92. Most of the year we do "push and cruise" type intervals where you push but keep the pace of the recoveries faster. Our idea is to be stronger. The final phase of each season focuses more on speed with very slow recoveries. I guess that it is sort of a Lyriad-inspired training philosophy.
So J and I warm up. Definitely not feeling too hot during the warm-up. Maybe I ran a touch too fast last night during the group run, I'm not sure. We got back to the track and I changed into my flats. He insisted on leading the first 400 since he said he didn't trust my pace instincts. I should not have trusted his pace instincts since we hit the first quarter in 86. I didn't do too much of a better job hitting the mark for the second one, since we hit that in 87. We alternated leading and did the rest of the quarters in 85, 86, 85, 87, 86, 87 and kept our recoveries right around 53-54. He had to remind me that the next time I do quarters, this was only half of the workout. Of course doing 16 I probably would not run quite so fast. The first one felt really fast, but I kind of got into a groove for the next five. Numbers seven and eight were pretty tough.
Now I'm second guessing myself. I'm starting to worry that I ran too fast for racing this weekend. I usually do 200s before a race. J and I were kidding around that the last time we did 400s was this time last year. We were being serious too. All spring I did longer intervals since my focus was a half-marathon. Actually, neither of us has done many track workouts this fall at all. We're both still trying to get back into the pacing of being on the track.
I am looking forward to my day off from running AND work tomorrow. I'm supposed to meet up with a girl who I went to high school with to do something. We aren't sure what we're going to do yet, maybe lunch or shopping. Most of the public schools are closed tomorrow. Today was a statewide inservice day. Some districts have inservice again tomorrow and others have off. She's completed all of her required development/training hours, so she has the day off. She is one of the directors of a marching band that has a game at night, but she has the afternoon free. It should be good to see her again. The last time I saw her was at her engagement party in July.
Posted by Blondie at October 7, 2004 07:16 PM