Seven Sisters trail race (12 Miles) 02:13:20, Place overall: 17
Easy Miles
Marathon Pace Miles
Threshold Miles
VO2 Max Miles
Crosstraining miles
Total Miles
1.00
12.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
13.00
Didn't get the warmup I wanted. The race had 3,700ft vertical. Had to climb bits. Tore me up good. Shouldn't have done this. I didn't go all out, but it still took a lot out of me. Bad training for my mile on the 28th.
This was supposed to be a 200 workout, but we were too sore. Fortunately we both didn't want to do the workout. If one of us had wanted to do it, we both would have and would have only made things worse. Running sore is surprisingly easier than walking sore. We stopped to stretch and I almost fell over, lol.
Still sore, but getting better. Morning runs are always hard. Cardiovascularly I feel great, but this trail race just did my legs in. I am now convinced I should do plyometrics after every speed workout (that is, repeat workout as daniels would call it, not after vo2max or LT). If I do hills or plyometrics once a week my quads never get sore, but if I don't...
Did the red rooster ramble as a tempo run. We actually managed to not race it. There was one guy there going faster than us, but we just kept to our pace (6:12) and it felt pretty darn good. It was humid and we kept pace beautifully. I hope that the summer heat doesn't kill me (going to be in TN for the summer).
Another calendar day. Felt good despite morning run. Now its time to really focus on mile specific training for our race on the 28th. I have met all of my goals for the season, but I will be disappointed if I don't at least PR this race. In a mildly just world (which, with highschoolers going sub 4, it is decidedly not) I will go sub 4:54 but we will see.
This was the first time for this workout with only 1 min rest. And it was also the fastest I've done it. Its been a while since doing real speed work and Ive lost 3-5lb since then as well as gaining both fitness and confidence in my running. It felt petty good except for one rep in which I felt really dizzy and almost fell down. But instead of stopping, I just went faster, hitting a low 72 for that one.
Afterwards we did plyometrics and abs to top off a great workout.
We have decided on doing a mile race on the 21st and if we don't hit our goals (sub 5 for dr. bedoukian and sub 4:56 for me) we will race again on the 28th. As soon as the mile is over with, we are going into base building for marathon training.
