mile repeats - 2.4 mile warmup around Washington, then cemetary miles with 1/2 mile recovery, and then Washinton warmup backward as cooldown. 1-5:28 a bit disappointed as I wanted to really burn up these repeats since I was planning on only doing three. But as I thought about it, I realized it was the fastest first repeat I had done on this course and took into account that I hadn't done them for a few weeks, it was a bit colder in the evening, and my GPS ran it a bit long (I think) 2-5:21 decided I wanted to get the next two with one under :25 and one under :20, so I really pushed hard. Again the GPS ran this mile long, but the time was good. 3-5:12 really tried to make myself keep working throughout each section of the mile, even the tough uphill ending, and it paid off. The time was strong (quickest ever on this course). The GPS also hit about when it should have (maybe a couple seconds early). What I should do is just drive it and then not worry about if the Garmin is long or short (usually, however, it hasn't been that much of a problem) Overall, happy about the workout. This course is (estimated) at least 10 seconds harder then running a metric on a track. So today's miles showed some good hard work. I need to keep pushing these times down to below 5:10's and then start adding more to be where I want to for mile repeats. W-154 RHR-41 |