Butt-kicking day. We met at the track and ran around the neighborhoods for just over 3 miles, the avg. pace being 9:06. Then we did a tempo run up Rustic Roads, back thru Meridies, and back to the high school. My time on that was 14:49, and 7:48 pace. Hmm, when we last ran that about a month ago I did it in 14:41, so a little slower today. I never like that. Then it was off to do Yasso 800's. My times were: 3:35, 3:27, 3:39, 3:29, 3:30, and 3:29. When we last ran these, about a month ago, my times were about 5 to 6 seconds slower, so I did better on the 800's today. So according to Yasso, I should be able to run a marathon somewhere around 3:30-3:35. I would be happy with that at St. George, but I'm not counting on it because Yasso 800's have never worked for me in predicting my marathon time. Add about 10 minutes to the slowest, and then you have my marathon time. I had to run off right away, no staying around for any extra mileage.
Here's the thing: my 5th grader had a field trip to the Timpanogos Cave today. Ordinarily I don't like field trips and I sometimes volunteer secretly hoping they've already filled the parent spots. However, I wanted to go on this particular trip because I thought the hike up to the cave would be good cross-training and a good workout. So I was looking forward to that. So we get there, we wait around for quite a while because they had to take us up in different groups, and I was in the last group. When it's finally our turn to go, I was pumped up about the hike. So we get going, we hike for a few minutes, then we stop. One of the girls in the group had asthma and was really struggling. We waited a few minutes for her and her dad to catch up, then we're off again. A minute later, we stop. We wait a few minutes for them to catch up, then we're off. Two minutes later, we stop, we wait, we sit and let everyone catch their breath, then we're off. Thirty seconds later, we stop, we wait, we go. Do you get the drift? We probably didn't hike continuously for more than a couple of minutes at a time. It took us 1 hour and 19 minutes (yes, I was timing it) to do the mile and a half hike. That averages to about 1.2 mph. Have you ever walked that slow on a treadmill? It is slow torture, which is what I went thru today. For some reason the teacher didn't want to send any of us ahead, so we had to do the slow march up the mountain. Very frustrating, but I tried to be a good trooper and keep my frustrations to myself. I probably won't volunteer for another field trip anytime soon. So much for my cross-training plans.
I did get on the treadmill later and do a little more running, probably one or two miles. |