5.30 7.5 miles AM in 51:40. 8.5 miles PM in 54:42 (6:26 pace)
16 miles total.
I realized today that I have maybe backed off the mileage a little too much and emphasized track workouts over some longer, harder runs. I dont know--Im just going to go with my gut and keep grinding it out. I know I am way better than my races are indicating so I am just going to "keep the faith" and just train hard and smart.
5.31 9 miles total 2 mile warm up. I then did a 400/800/2400/800/400 superset with a goal pace of 71/76,76/80,80,80,80,80,80/76,76/71.
I ended up doing 69/76,77/80,80,79,80,81,81/79,80/76. 3 miles in 15:38. 4 mile cool down.
I am very, very satisfied with this workout. I could not go faster really for those last 3 laps, but I also did not fall apart and felt like I could have kept going at an 80 second clip for a while. My fastest 3 mile workout on a track was previously 16:27 this year, so I am again satisfied.
I have logged 39.5 miles the past 3 days.
6.1.11 National Running Day. I headed out from work and impulsively decided to do a harder run than I had expected. I ended up running 10 miles in 61:32 with the first 8 miles in 47:54. I was tired from the last few days of running, but wanted to stay under 6 minutes per mile for as long as I felt I could based on how tired I felt initially. The last two miles I did in 13:38 and essentially jogged, but I'm working on speeding up all my runs at this point--even cool downs--as long as they still feel good.
I am loving this week of training. I missed those harder weeks.
6.2 10 miles 68:48.
6.3 3.5 miles AM easy.
9 miles PM. 1 mile warm up. Then a Pyramid with 200m recovery jogs between each rep that averaged 61 seconds. 400,400,800,800,1600,800,800,400,400.
My splits were 75,75,2:32,2:33,5:10,2:34,2:35,74,72. 3 mile cool down.
I was cooked the last 3 reps and had lactic acid build-up everywhere so I gutted those last few out. Not much rest there so I am thinking this was a nice workout. Hard workout week this week.
12.5 miles for the day.
6.4 10 miles (75 minutes).
6.5 5 miles AM easy. 5 Miles PM easy. 10 miles total.
77.5 miles for the week. Excellent week with several intense workouts.
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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