5.9 6 miles around new castle in 44 minutes.
5.10 OFF
5.11 8 miles easy in 57:30
5.12 2.5 miles warm up outside. Then 2 sets of 4 by 600's with 200m (60-65 seconds) recovery jog; 600m jog between each set. Splits were 1:45, 1:46, 1:47, 1:48 for set 1. Set 2 was 1:48, 1:50, 1:50, 1:51. 4.25 miles of work including all recovery jogs in 24:59. 3 miles cool down.
Im pleased with this work-out, because it was on the track and not on the treadmill and I averaged about 72 second per 400 pace. My second set was slower, but 1:45 was just too fast anyhow.
9.75 Miles total for the day.
5.13 13.25 miles around the backroads of Dover (94 minutes).
I didnt mean to run so long, but Duncan's baseball practice kept going, so I decided to run for his entire practice. I'll be taking it easier tomorrow.
5.14 Im up north in NH for a wedding. 4 miles am easy before leaving for wedding. 6 miles pm in 37:55 with eight one minute strides. 1st three miles in 20:02 and then the last three in 17:53. Im working on form, pacing, etc. I felt good.
5.15 I had basically no time to run today so I snuck in a quick tempo run around a track up north in NH. 1/2 mile warm up and cool down. 3 mile tempo in 16:28. Splits were 5:35, 5:30, 5:23. I could have gone longer, but was risking being late for a family function.
51 miles total Decent week of training.
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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