16 mile Big Nasty Workout! It sucked but I'm glad I stayed in and didn't pull out short. All weekend my legs have been very sore, and tight. My left hamstring that has been an issue most of the summer and both my calves refused to loosen up after last Saturday. I was feeling very beat up this morning and told the guys there was a good chance I'd skip the speed stuff or cut it short. But we warmed up nice and easy for 4 miles and then I decided to try it. The plan was to do a 4 mile, 3 mile, 2 mile, 1 mile set all at MP with a 2 min jog to recover. Thats how it looked on paper- out on the trial with my sore legs it looked a lot like where all the bad people go after this life. 4 mile set: Avg- 5:50 pace. My legs didn't want to go from the start. It was so hard to just get going up to speed and within a quarter mile both Logan and Dave are long gone. I just try and relax and take it for what it's worth. 3 mile set: Avg- 5:45 pace. This one should have been the hardest. Don't ask my why, but there are a lot of reasons. However I just stuck it in gear and was able to hit the goal time back up the trail. 2 mile set: Avg- 5:46 pace. Basically the same effort as the 3 mile set. Right where I wanted to be ish. 1 mile: 5:37- Being the last one it was easier to try a little harder on this one. We did have a pretty hard head wind as well so a good effort a the end of a wicked workout. Then we did a slow and easy 2 mile cool down. Looking back at my splits I am really happy with the results considering how I felt today. Other than my legs being jacked up, the rest of my body and mind were pretty trashed too. So a good workout with a crappy body. Really glad I just did it. I was so close to bagging it for the day and just doing an easy run instead of the speed stuff. I just hope I didn't do any damage to the sore parts of my legs and if not hopefully I'll recover by Wednesday's mile workout! Ouch! (Black Stratus- 116.5) 5 mile run this afternoon. The weather has been a little cooler and that was nice. The legs actually felt better on this run than they did this morning. (Blue Stratus- 471.9)
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