7:40 AP. Ugly, ugly attempt at speedwork today. I want to become friends with 6:00 pace and perhaps build a relationship, and I want to try out these racing flats more, and the kids didn't have school today so despite a little wind we all headed to the track. I strapped on the go-fasters and warmed up a mile, then started. I was going for a dirty dozen--12x400 in 90 seconds with 200 meter recovery. First one was slow because my hair fell out and I had to put it back in a ponytail while I was running.
91, 90, 90, 91(calves are already burning), 91, 92(oh my calves, 200 meters is not enough to recover anymore), 93(walked part of the 200 recovery after this to shake my calves out), 89. Vanessa needed a pody break, bless her heart. It helped to take a break! 88, 89, 90, had to stop and yell at a kid so extra break here, 86. Then I jogged about 2.5 to cool down with some veering to chase kids. The wind on the back stretch made this harder then it had to be I think, and I definitely need to strengthen my calves to adjust to running in these kinds of shoes. Next the high school football coach and a player showed up and he asked me to video tape the kid doing some sprints while he drilled him on his technique. That was pretty fun. The coach was wearing 5 fingers shoes and the kid was wearing Nike frees. Interesting. After watching that the kids wanted me to time them doing sprints so we did that for a while. Nick ran 100 meters in 17 seconds in socks--wow that is 4:32 pace for a 10-year-old!
I may do some treadmill miles after work just to enjoy running some uninterrupted miles. update: did 4 on the treadmilll after work at 8:34 pace
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