Whoever said that procrastination doesn't pay off lied! I was going to go running this morning. It was raining and I wasn't sure when my daughter's morning side with John Bytheway was going to be done, so I didn't want to go on a long run and then find out that she had been waiting for an hour. So I decided to wait until she was done. I started on some projects and finished those up around Noon and when I looked outside it was beautiful! So, I decided I'd head out. I needed to be close to my phone so I decided to go to the track and do 8-10 miles. I wanted to do about 4 or 5x800s and see if I could do them pretty "fast". I started off with an 400m jog clockwise on the track (against the rules). I was feeling good, so I kept going to start off with a warm-up mile on lane 1 (yeah, Track Nazi, I said lane 1), and to calibrate the Garmin again to make sure it wasn't some fluke that it was very accurate. I thought I'd possibly fool it by running the wrong way on the track. Those Garmin guys are pretty smart! It remained very true. I have it set to capture every second, so maybe that helps it to be more accurate. Anyways, so I started out on my mile and after a lap at 2:08 (8:32 pace), then the second at 2:00 (8:00 pace), I realized that if I pushed it, this easy mile could turn out to be a PR for me. So I started pushing it and did the third lap in 1:49 (7:16 nice!), then the final lap in 1:35 (6:20!! holy cow!) for a mile split time of 7:32! With that split, I'm half way to being 'fast'! (Note the single quotes since I'm half way there. haha) I should have started out with the idea of beating my PR and I probably could have come pretty close to 7:00, which is my threshold for when I'll consider myself fast (without the quotes!) Oh well, there's always next week/month!
I stopped and got a drink then ran my intervals: 400m - 8:55
800m - 7:11
400m - 9:13
800m - 7:40
400m - 12:48
800m - 7:23
400m - 11:12
800m - 7:35
400m - 13:18
800m - 7:30
400m - 12:00
3mi - cool down @ 8:26 avg pace
800m - 13:47 (very slow jog/walk)
800m - 17:23 (saw a guy with a Just a Short Race shirt on from 2 years ago so I walked with him for a couple of laps while we chatted. He's about 75 years old and has done a ton of marathons and Halfs. He's jogging/walking the Pittsburgh Marathon next month. He was telling me which ones he liked the best, etc. Super nice guy. He knows another marathoner at my work that runs about a 4:00 marathon, so I'll have to look him up!) Cruised home to get the lawn mowed since it was starting to sprinkle. Just as I finished, it started to rain. I <3 Procrastinating!
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