Freethinker ~ Freerunner

We got lucky today that it did not rain on us for the first 35 minutes of our two hour run.  Sometime after that point it began to lightly sprinkle and continued to get harder until about and hour and half in.  At that point it turned to a heavy down poor with big lightning strikes all around.  I qualify this as a rave run.  The only problem with the timing of the down poor was that it was during the final quarter of my run which I had scheduled to run hard at near race pace.  By about one mile in to my final four fast miles my shoes were soaking wet and I was running into the wind.  I also had three hills to overcome during this part of my run.  Considering the challenges of the course and the elements I feel pretty good that I average 7:00 minute miles.  I was going for my race pace goal of 6:52.  

Average moving pace: 7:47

Final four splits at fast pace:

6:59

6:48

7:11

7:10

Easy recovery run this morning at a 7:49 pace.  I really felt the soreness in my calves this morning from the previous two days of fast miles.  I could still feel the soreness a little at work today as well.  I'm hoping that I get a good recovery during sleep tonight so I can run some fast 800's tomorrow.  

I'm stoked.  My goal was to run 5 800 repeats at 6:52 pace or 3:26 for each repeat.  I ended up with an average pace at 3:07.  I also felt so good after I ran my fifth that I decided to run a sixth before jogging my last cool down mile.  

Splits: 

3:15

3:05

3:15

3:06

3:01

3:05

I took the past two days off because my calves were really sore.  My right calf was too sore.  I was afraid that I may have pulled something again because I did have problems with my right calf back in January.  So I rested Wednesday and Thursday instead of running my easy three mile run and my tempo run.  I opted to run my tempo run today.  I felt my right calf only a little during the first mile.  On my last mile I noticed my thighs were pretty sore/fatigued feeling which I thought was weird.  My chest was also feeling sore, which is leftover from my strength workout on Tuesday.  I guess I went a little too heavy on the weight. 

I think I will do pilates tonight and rest again tomorrow.  Hopefully I feel good on Sunday to run my mock half marathon so I will know where I'm at.  

Splits:

7:52

7:00

6:45

6:56