Aaron and I woke up early this morning despite our late
night gaming with Aaron’s family last night.
We drove the 20 minutes to Sugarhouse park to meet up with Allie for a
workout around the rolling 1.25 mile loop.
30 minute warm up, stretching strides
10 minutes at half marathon pace (5:47 pace)
3 minute jog
4X(3 minutes fast, 1 minute jog, 1 minute hard, 2 minutes
rest with 10 push ups.) My pace on the 3
minute intervals was 5:31, 5:36, 5:41, 5:54 (the last one was actually 3:30
since I didn’t see Aaron’s arm cue to stop as he was behind me and I hadn’t
been looking at my watch. My pace on the
one minute intervals was 5:17, 5:18, 5:05, 4:53. Aaron pushed our pace on the one minute
intervals and finished each of those intervals slightly ahead of Allie and me
in order to prove his manhood (his words, not mine.)
It was good to catch up with Allie and enjoy her
company. Everyone wish her luck in CIM
next week! She’s sharp and ready to rock
it! During the warm up Aaron and I got
talking about ‘efficient’ running form.
Sorry for the unsolicited advice, Allie. With all the studying and experimenting
Aaron has done on his own running form lately, it is a frequent topic of
discussion for us. We may sound like we
think we know it all but in reality we are still just trying to figure it all
out for ourselves.
My legs felt pretty good considering the solid week behind
me. I finally ran over 50 miles in a
week for the first time since Baltimore and am starting to feel pretty fit
again. It was good to race and realize
that I am on track for a decent race at the CC Club Champs in two weeks. After club cross I am excited to get in some
higher mileage and begin my preparation for the Houston Half on January 29th.
Aaron and I listened to “Once a Runner” by John L. Parker on
the drive back to Colorado today. We
enjoyed hearing the experiences and wisdom shared by the author as he tells in
third person the story of his journey to becoming a world class runner. I feel aligned with the author in this
particular sentiment:
“(He) was not enthusiastically going about the business of
breaking world records or capturing some coveted prize. Such ideas would have been laughable to him
in the bland grind of his daily routine.
He was merely trying to slip into a lifestyle that he could live
with. Strenuous but not unedurable by
any means. Out of which, if the corpuscles
and the capillaries and the electrolytes were properly aligned in their own
mysterious configurations, he might do even better something he had already
done quite well. He was trying to ‘switch gears.’ At least, that is how he thought of it.”
Who is with me? Time
to go out and do even better something we have already done quite well? Lets do this.
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