Woke up and Coach had texted that steeplechase practice was cancelled, I gratefully went back to sleep :)
Quad hurt more today but that’s probably because I didn’t heat before. Warmups and 2 mile warmup, strides then started. Workouts were 6x500s for 800 group and 12x500s for 5k group, coach just had us all run together. Today I decided I’d try to go for the right pace and not worry about being able to finish the whole workout, it’s time I work on pacing. Coach said the goal pace for today was 1:45-1:50, which is 84-88 pace. My times went 1:41, 1:42, 1:42, 1:43, 1:43, 1:50 (consistently coming through 400 in 81-82ish on those). The last one was rough, definitely hit my threshold on the 4th. Need to work on pushing through. Coach pulled me after that, kinda disappointed but also grateful because it would’ve been a rough 6 more. Cooled down to 6.5. Then steepled a bit afterwards.
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