Dave's Addiction

These Sasha runs are habit forming! We took Benjamin this morning, and went extra slow for the 5 up the canyon. The goal today was to do negative splits on the tempo run, starting at 5:30. I was excited to see what the new and improved body could do, and was not disappointed! The first mile at 5:30 did not feel like 5:30 at all, in fact it felt like we were starting at 6:20. By the end of it I was still in the green, mostly. The second mile accelerated to 5:23, that was enough to put me into the yellow but I was really shocked to come on its end so suddenly. Ben was having some trouble and I wanted to get to the red and maybe black zone so I immediately accelerated past them to 880 pace and held it for most of the quarter, like 4:58 or something. Then I started getting the lung bands, but not the tiredness in the legs! I kept hoping I could maintain this speed to the end as I was now solidly in the red. Sasha came up and passed me and I accelerated again to match him but that put me in the black and he ended up coming in 1 second before me. I got 5:11 for the last mile. That's a pretty cool trick considering that 2 weeks ago I was slower and in much more distress for more of the run. I can hardly wait for Saturday's 5k!