Kicking it way old school this morning. Met up with Jen at the indoor 8 lap cement track in the basement of Springville HS. Totally brought back nightmares from when I was overweight in HS and barely made the cutoff for the presidential fitness mile. I think I ran like a 12:49 with a good 11 second cushion for the 13 min cutoff. HS was not my glory days!
Anyway the place was packed and we realized it would not be easy to get a workout in but we were there so we were going to try. Jen hadn't done a speed workout since MichelleL moved and the last one I did was a ladder workout so we just decided to go with that. 2-4-6-8-10-8-6-4-2 with 200 active recovery. 400 recovery after the 8's & 10. No stopping ever and Jen was a jack rabbit when it came to the recovery. Way faster than I'm used to which was probably a good thing. 40-1:25-2:12-3:00-3:48-2:59-2:14-1:30-41. Josh jumped in with us for the 2nd half of the workout.
These numbers are not great and I could make up all sorts of excuses like the wrestling team doing walking lunges with 25lb dumb bells on the inside lane, the insane amount of swerving we did around walkers, and did I mention it was a cement track? But the point is the effort was there and that is all I was going for. The workout took an hour total with warmup & cooldown. The constant turning with these short tracks is just probably not the best for my IT band so I added 2.25 CD mi on the treadmill at the gym. | 