11.8 OFF
11.9 This afternoon, I look forward to doing my final track workout before Sunday's race, a cut-down workout starting at 2000 meters and working my way down to 1600, 1200, 800, 400 with 400 recovery jogs. In each successive repetition, I will try to average 3 seconds faster per lap.
6.75 total.
This was a solid workout. 2000, 1600, 1200, 800, 400 with 400 recovery jogs. My reps were supposed to be successively faster per lap. 6:43 (81 per lap); 5:13 (78 per lap); 3:48 (76 per lap); 2:27 (73 per lap); 68.
I put in a pretty hard effort for this. It was not gut-splitting, but I was pleased when the workout was over.
Now, I'll simply take it easy until Sunday. I have done all I can do.
11.10 OFF
11.11 2.25 miles easy
11.12 OFF
11.13 3 miles easy
11.14 Half Marathon in 1:16:40. 2nd place. Well--second was a decent showing, but I am disappointed in my time. I ran out of gas this season and look forward to properly training in 2011 for the entire year. I simply tried to cram too much training into a short window. I never got my legs back after that 80 mile week in September. All in all, I'm pretty pleased but know that I was capable of doing better today. However, this race represented a huge learning curve. I had no idea what to expect today--and after mile 5 my pace just dropped off. I was right on 5:40 pace through five miles. 1 mile cooldown and warm up.
My hat goes off to Bob Wiles who just killed it today!
27 miles total
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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