Didn't have much time today so I cut it short. I warmed up a mile and did a few reps at mile pace trying to get more used to running faster, I did an 800, 400, and 600m. I was 1 second slow on everything compared to where I wanted to be, 2:25, 73, 1:49. The pace did not feel good, but to be fair I haven't been training for faster stuff outside of strides. I think I've been lazy and only getting up to like low 5:00 pace and I need them to be where i want my mile pace to be. Doing timed 100ms for strides will probably help with that. I should also do some mile specific workouts but I've noticed anaerobic workouts like that mess with my breathing an congestion long term, so I prefer limiting that. I'll have to figure something out. I can do 10k and even 5k pace workouts and I feel okay, but sub 5 minute pace workouts mess up my whole system. From my understanding it's pretty much just the mucus my asthma creates comes up and wrecks my nasal passageways and what not. On the other hand I finished with a 77 getting to a 5:19 mile for my last of the mile repeats last week so I think faster paced are getting more comfortable to an extent, I'll start with just giving better efforts on the strides and throwing in a few mile pace efforts here and there. I do yearn for the 400m repeats, and I know that's what would truly help. I definitely have some work to do before I can run sub 4:50. |