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May 01, 2006
Good but not Great
Tonight's workout was good but not great. It wasn't the huge workout that I was hoping for to be the last workout before racing on Sunday. As I was doing it, I was definitely happy that we decided to not do the extra bit that we had talked about during the day. Rationally, it didn't make sense to do any extra since it was the first week of this and I haven't been doing the 400s to really gain a sense of pace. That is my own fault since I raced some on Sundays so that I couldn't do the Monday night workouts.
Tonight was one of my bread and butter race season workouts. If you're on, this workout is great. If you're off, it can be extremely painful. Tonight was an in between night. My sense of pace is slightly off, but the main problem was my allergies. The workout was 16 x 300 with a 100 jog. The idea is to float through the 100, so the 300 can't be too fast. G pulled us too fast on the first 300 and I always run my recoveries fast, so I started out faster than intended. Eventually the pollen count got to me and I just could not breathe at all. It truly bothers me that I've had to stop the past few weeks during workouts for various reasons. None of the stops have been all that long, but it still bothers me. Tonight there was no way that I could have kept running at that point. I started back up less than a minute later, but still. I have not had an allergy/asthma issue this bad since college when I was swimming. Then it was because of all the chemicals in the pool area. Tonight my allergies went into overdrive and pushed me over. The total was still the fastest that I've ever done for the 300s, but it just was not what I wanted it to be.
This was it for the week. The rest of the week consists of cutting mileage and taking it easy. My initial goal for this weekend is sort of out the window. I don't think that it is possible right now. My objective now is just to PR, instead of the huge PR I was looking to do. I have found that my best races have come when I have no expectations, including my PR in this race. There is simply something to be said for just going out there and doing it without thinking about it.
Posted by Blondie at May 1, 2006 08:15 PM