Almost got beaten up in my PM run today. I was only 4 blocks from my apt when a car stopped next to me and asked me for directions. I started giving them the directions and one of them jumped out of the car-AT me. I took off running and he jumped back in the car and the chased me. I made the first turn possible and they also did, then I turned down an alley (sounds stupid, eh?) but luckily right at the moment they caught up to me and one tried jumping out again but they were still moving so he only got as far as opening the door and yelling at me. At that point they were past the turn and could not follow me. I then booked it home the last 2 blocks. I don't really know why they chased me. If they wanted to mug me they would have been disappointed as all i had were my keys. What I actually think is that they saw this little 'rich' white guy running by himself and wanted to have some fun--aka beat me up and teach me a lesson for being a 'rich white boy'. This might sound racist, but not only have I seen it happen before, it happened to me fairly regularly in middle school.
Why isnt there a repeat or speed section to this blog? Oh well. 14x200 @ 32 w/200 recovery. Pretty fast for me. This is my least favorite workout. But it comes from lydiard believe it or not. He thought that in order to fully peak for a middle distance event you should do a boatload of anaerobic work in the last 3-4 weeks before the race. This differs from daniels in that daniels says you should do your speed work with as much rest as you need to feel fresh for the next one. If anyone has experience with which one is better please comment. Who knows if it helps, but it will strengthen my legs if nothing else. It would make sense that it would help with the kick in the last lap of the mile.
Gonna get another 3-4 mile shake out tonight even though I don't need the mileage. It just feels right after that workout. Edit: went out for 3 but did 5 cause i felt so good.
Stress, recover, repeat has become the basic method to my training. I have seen a lot of return from that this semester and hopefully the improvement continues. I guess the devil lies in the details thought. The key is what kind of stresses and how much recovery. I thought that bedoukian had more miles than me this week, but really he just counts his week from saturday to friday. Take that Matt! Damn, now he is gonna go run 5 and overtake me...
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