5.16 3 miles AM easy. 5 Miles PM easy with first 2 miles with my oldest son, Gustave.
8 miles total for the day.
5.17 OFF My left calf was totally locked up all day.
5.18 1.5 mile warm up. 5 by 1 mile with 400m recovery jog (2 minutes). I did this on the track--no more treadmill running for me until next winter--It messes with my head.
Splits were 5:07, 5:09, 5:08, 5:10, 5:10. 6 miles total, including recovery in 33:43 (5:37 pace). 1.5 miles cool down.
Im very satisfied with this workout. My goal was to average about 5:10, so I was under my goal. In cutting down my mileage these last few weeks, Im slowly starting to feel much, much stronger. I cant wait for Redhook. With the exception of maybe the last repeat, these mile repeats were not completely killing me. I felt good.
9 miles total for the day.
5.19 7.25 miles in roughly 53 minutes. I ran with my son for a lot of it who did a track workout and tempo run on the way to the track.
5.20 8.75 miles with 5 strides (59:37)
5.21 AM 1 mile warm up and then 2 by 2800meter supersets. Goal was 1st 400 in 75, next 800 in 2:30, last mile in 5:20 for a time of 9:00. 800 meter recovery jog between each set (I did my 800 in 3:54).
Splits for set one were 69,77,76,82,81,81,77 for a time of 9:02. Second set was 71,77,77,84,84,84,74 for a time of 9:10. 2 miles cool down. I messed up with the last set in terms of pacing in the final mile, but Im still pleased. 4 miles of total work, including recovery, in 22:06.
I did the same workout back in August and went 9:33, 9:17, so the first set in particular was way faster. All in all, I am pleased and believe I am ready to smash my all time PR from 1990 of 15:47. I think my second set I just messed up with my pacing. I left a little too much in the tank to be able to bust a 34 in that last 200.
For the record, in my first set I went out in 31 for my first 200. I'm starting to develop some serious speed--at least for me!
7 miles total.
5 miles PM Easy (36:10) I did it around the track while Gustave did a track workout. He did 2 by 800s with 1 minute rest at 3:20, 3:18, then rested 3 minutes and did 2 by 400's with 1 minutes rest at 90, 88.
12 miles for the day.
5.22 5 miles easy on Redhook course with my son.
50 miles for the week.
As a youth, I ran, yet I did not exist in a sense. 19 years passed. Today, I exist in one sense because I must run. Perhaps I run to escape the futility of my existence. Perhaps not. In either case, this blog, or whatever it is, will serve to chronicle my training as a runner, my development as a man, and ultimately my demise as a human, because all things pass, fade, retreat into the horizon--and while we run, as we run, the mirage that is the shimmering, glimmering future continues to assert itself just out of reach. And yet, as this picture up above connotes, it may still be beautiful. And so the question may be what is IT? What is it? What is IT?
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