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April 04, 2005
Got a New 'Tude
Well, I vowed that I would have a better attitude towards my track workouts after Thursday night's debacle and that is exactly what I did. This evening's workout is one of the hardest workouts that we do, in my opinion. It is one of the workouts that we do that I can judge if I am really in shape, or just faking it in races.
This morning, it was so tough to get up. Since I had been off from work all of last week, I got to sleep in. Setting the clocks ahead meant that it felt like 3:50 when I woke up this morning, way too early! I did get out there and do my usual four mile course. It was so dark, I was happy that we replaced the battery in the headlamp or else I wouldn't have been able to see anything.
Tonight was the track. The wind was really gusting. As Jessie stated, I hate wind, IhateitIhateitIhateit. I think that there were gusts close to 40 miles per hour. Aside from that, I have determined that the tracks that I do my workouts on always has wind on it. For some reason on this track, there is never wind at your back, always in your face. I swear it defies all the laws of physics. Anyhow, the workout was 8-10 by 600 with a 200 float recovery. When I saw J yesterday he told me to do at least 8, but if I felt good to go for 10. My secret goal was to do 10, so that was how I approached the workout. I was aiming to run the intervals right around 6 minute pace. I was very happy with how the workout turned out. The first two were faster than I wanted, most of them were right on, I purposely tried to relax on the 7th and 8th 600s so that the last two could be good. After the warmdown, it was ten miles for the night, fourteen for the day.
I tried to return to doing ice baths tonight. It was not the most sucessful attempt. I swear the water is colder now because I could hardly get myself into the cold water. I finally was able to get into the tub, put the ice in and lasted for a grand total of two minutes. I'm not too sure it was worthwhile, I need to get used to being in the cold water again, but I'll see tomorrow if my legs feel better. Well, that's all, I've got to call my college roomie back!
Posted by Blondie at April 4, 2005 08:31 PM