A chilly, foggy start to the morning. I admitedly was slow to get started on my run.
The workout was one final really long run with a speed workout at the end. The idea was to practice running tired.
So I ran 15 miles faster than I would normally run "easy" miles. All in the 6:20-6:30 range. I wanted to accelerate the fatigue as much as possible without leaving myself in a state of massiv recovery. After the 15 miles I rolled into what was supposed to be 4 miles at marathon pace. After three miles though, things were going so well that I decided to push it to 5 miles. At the 5 mile mark I said what the heck, let's just make this a 10k. So I pushed it to 10k which I finished in 32:54. I would kill for a 32:54 final 10k in a marathon. It wound up being a 5:17 pace but a couple of the miles were 5:11s.
This was one of the most satisfying workouts I have ever done. I ran a medium pace for 15 miles, then ran a very solid 10k afterward and felt like i could have maybe gone another 5-10k. I felt really good and it served as just about as good of a marathon sim workout as one could hope for.
Really looking forward to Indy. Just wish it wasn't three weeks away. I'm ready to go now.
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