overtaking haynes

ran centennial trail out and back from easton side. round trip was 11.73 miles in 1h 54min.

Saw another guy doing the same out and back run starting from the other side He was older but looked pretty fit, i wonder who he is.

 Then ran 1.62 with kristin on whortleberry. she did really well up the hill.

 

Decided to follow Daniels' training log and be a couple workouts behind Haynes. May not do all of them but probably at least try one of them a week. Felt kind a little nausea at work today, almost definitely from stress. Was looking forward to the track workout though. Went to the high school track which is a really beautiful setting. Ran 1.5 miles on the cross country trail which is gravel in the woods for warmup. Did 5x1mile (really 1600). Was shooting for 6:05 thinking it wouldn't be too difficult to run 90's but was I wrong! Ran 6:13, 6:12, 6:13, 6:17, 6:16 with about 1min 10sec rest in between. Felt chest pains and thought i was going to drop dead of a heart attack as early as the second mile. I thought someone would find me dead the next morning. I guess it was just a cramp or the too many pretzels i ate right before.

 I forgot how annoying the track can be after work, with the sun beaming down in your eyes on one side of the track and sweating profusely while having to close your eyes. The back side was cooler but it just felt hot and annoying. Will not wear my brooks beasts for any sort of track workout. wanted to save my old track shoes from wear but felt much too slow today.

I'm hoping my legs were just tired from the ~2h trail run yesterday and the 400 workout on sat. I was actually impressed i could hit 75's still. Didn't feel like i was going fast at all today but just couldn't move my legs even when i wanted to. I'll have to come back to this one to redeem myself.
 

closed on house yesterday so didn't run and also thought i needed a break even though i wasn't sore or anything. Did workout 3 week 7 of the daniels' running formula book. I pretty much copied what Haynes did but slower. Did 6x (600m (200m recovery), 400m (100m recovery), 200m (100m recovery). Looked at what pace I should run for a 4:57 mile which is my PR from 2008 and saw (if i'm calculating right) that I should run 2:10 for the 600m, 87sec for the 400m, and 43sec for the 200m.

Ran 1.3 mile warmup on trails at high school. My brother actually came along to run with me (or just do what he could).

splits:

2:12, 88, 44

2:11, 81, 41

2:06, 87, 41

2:06, 84, 43

2:09, 84, 43

2:08, 85, 44

 I think these would be considered VO2 max but maybe threshold.
 

I wore my brooks racing shoes and of course got a blister on my right little toe by repeat set number 4 which was annoying. Felt really good today like it was pretty easy. I felt a tiny burn starting at set 5 but could have run more. Some russian guy was there running and said he used to be good, he said I had good endurance and speed but need to lean forward more and run on the ball of my foot.

Cooled down 1.3 miles on trail.

Went to kristin's house and did 2.4 miles at huntington with her.  

slow 8.5 at huntington. took me forever it seemed to do 2 loops of the main outside trail.