Totally proud of and happy for Nan today, she nailed a solid race once again today...and kicked the 3rd place rut! 2nd place at the usatf 15K championship in 5:21 pace! Read more here. I'm also stoked to report that I'm almost back to 100% again after 3 weeks of recovery from the Moab 55K. Today I got out to the track to run over at Fairview. It was a really nice morning in the calm, sunny weather to be out there and feeling good again. After a warmup with Brent Vaughn, Kenyon Neumann, Dr. Richey, and his whole high school team, I continued the light workout with the high schoolers. 6 hill strides Then as Brent and Kenyon were doing their hard workout, I did 5 x 400 fast with 200 Meter recoveries at a steady 6:10 pace. It was interesting to test out a workout with the 200 recovery staying at a moderate pace. It felt good.
The workout was pretty easy and light effort, except for one of the 400's in which I tried to hang on to Brent and Kenyon. Ummmmm.....not happening. They had already done a 2 mile, 1 mile, 800m, 400m. And they were finishing on the 400m when I jumped in with them. I hung with them on a 31 second 200 but then it felt like they took off (in reality I hit the wall). They finished in 61.5 and I gasped in for I think a 67 second split.
And they did that after running a 9:04 2 mile, then a low 4 minute 1 mile, a 2:06 800m. Yeah...different league altogether.
But it was fun running with them. And oh yeah...I was totally hanging with them on the warm up and cool down...;)
I'm excited to hear about Brent's upcoming race at world XC championships in Spain. He's racing there next Sunday. My run for the day: 9 miles - 1:07:30 - 7:30 avg - a few hundred fee vertical tops.
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