I went out at about noon today, it was just starting to get nice out, but was still chilly enough for long-sleeves. I went on the Providence hill loop, but added a mile+ running up toward the mouth of the canyon. I decided to mix things up and try a little Fartlek. I have five timers on my watch so I set the segments to the time that I wanted to run, (2:00-hard, 2:00-easy, 3:00- hard, 3:00 easy). I wanted to run though three sets of segments. I started with three miles of good warm-up (7:00 pace), and started into my speed-play feeling pretty good. At the end of my second segment I finally caught on that something wasn't right, when I ran well over a half mile and closer to mile on a two minute segment. I figured out that my watch was on slow and I had been running double the time. I had originally planned to run 15 minutes of tempo, and instead ran 25-30 minutes. I guess I ended up with a better workout than I thought I did. I am pretty sure I ran well over 4 miles of tempo,but that is all I will count, even though I know that I was running under 6:00 min. mile pace.
At least 10.5 miles, probably closer to 11+.
1:13:54
(Adrenaline- 16 miles) | 