8.2 miles. 2 mile warmup and then 800 repeats then cool down. Pretty hard workout for sure. I ran 6 x 800 repeats and wanted to hold roughly a 6:00 pace, so run each in 3 minutes. The first one I ran a little fast because I was indoor again and didn't know exactly how fast I was moving until I completed one lap. I ended up backing off a little for the 4th and 5th repeats because I was not feeling great. It is just a little too hot at the indoor track for speed and the air was SO dry. I was coughing more after the run that I have in a long time. Overall, I still feel good about the workout, even though I had to back off a little. I am a little mad at myself though. I should have tried to just push through and not slow down so much. I met a great guy at the track during my warmup that offered to pace me at the end. I was stoked that he offered because it totally helped, as you can see my last repeat came in right at 3:00. I would have liked to have not backed off so much on the 4th and 5th repeats, but oh well. I will try harder next time. 1 - 2:43.8 2 - 3:01.3 3 - 3:02.2 4 - 3:13.8 5 - 3:12.7 6 - 3:00.6 My heart rate avg was 158 and on one of the repeats I hit 182. Full HR data. update: I decided to look up this similar workout that I did in the summer when I was training for the BCC marathon. I feel a little better after looking at it. My splits then were - 2:45.1 - 2:53.1 - 3:13.4 - 3:27.8 - 3:18.4 - 3:12.7 - I need to work on not going out so fast. Once again, hard indoors.
|