Making Progress
Tonight I ran my 4.4 mile route through my neighborhood. This is the shortest route of those that I run regularly so it's a good one to gauge my race speed. Two weeks ago yesterday I ran this route in 31:06 (7:04), though I had a planned walk of about 1 minute in there. Two days later I ran this route in 29:33 (6:43 pace). With two weeks of somewhat decent training, I figured I could improve upon that time tonight.
I was faced with a pretty strong wind in my face going out but knew that I couldn't let that compromise my pace too much or I'd have a mountain to climb coming back. I typically turn a negative split on this route but didn't want to face the prospect of having to try to shave a minute off the second half. I hit the turnaround in a respectable 14:19 (6:30 pace) but felt the wind to my back as soon as I turned around. Nice. I did the return in 13:53 (6:19 pace), including a final mile of 6:17.
Total distance - 4.4 miles, time - 28:12 (6:25 pace).
Total milage for the week (so far) - 25.2.
I was faced with a pretty strong wind in my face going out but knew that I couldn't let that compromise my pace too much or I'd have a mountain to climb coming back. I typically turn a negative split on this route but didn't want to face the prospect of having to try to shave a minute off the second half. I hit the turnaround in a respectable 14:19 (6:30 pace) but felt the wind to my back as soon as I turned around. Nice. I did the return in 13:53 (6:19 pace), including a final mile of 6:17.
Total distance - 4.4 miles, time - 28:12 (6:25 pace).
Total milage for the week (so far) - 25.2.
posted by Lance Collins at 8:31 PM
2 Comments:
When's the next race? Soon?
Good to hear that you're back at it. I can't wait to read your next race report--hopefully, it'll be soon...
Erin
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