Okay, clearly I need to drink less when making out my running plans. As an example, tonight's schedule originally called for 1 mi at an easy pace to warm up, then 45 minutes at 5-5.2 mph, followed by another 1 mi at an easy pace to cool down. All that seemed fine until I was in my warm up mile on the treadmill and realized that at the 5-5.2 mph pace, the 45 minutes of the second phase would require me to run over 3 miles! That would make for more miles in today's workout that on Sunday's long run. Pretending to be a sensible person, I scaled back the workout.
4.00 mi in 49:32 @ 12:32/mi burning 410 calories
1.00 mi in 13:20
1.00 mi in 12:00 (lactate threshold pace)
1.00 mi in 11:32 (lactate threshold pace)
0.50 mi in 6:00 (lactate threshold pace)
0.50 mi in 6:40
So instead of 45 minutes at stamina pace it was only 29:32. I can live with that result. What may be hard to live with is nearly 50 minutes running on a treadmill. My calves will hate me tomorrow.
Location: Kansas City, MO
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