Today was a big workout for me. I did "ladders" on the track. This consisted of 400-800-1200-1200-800-400-400-800-1200-1200-800-400. It tires me out just to type of all of that, so you can imagine it was tough to run. First I ran 3 miles to the track for warmup. And afterwards I ran 3 miles home. I rested half the distance of each speed portion.
My initial goal was to run 6:00 pace and stay with it.
400 - 92 seconds 800 - 3:00, right on pace 1200 - 4:45, couldn't keep the pace 1200 - 4:48, not too bad 800 - 3:11 400 - 97 seconds, that stunk 400 - 93 seconds, that was better 800 - 3:14, averaged 97 per 400 1200 - 4:59, the worst so far, averaged 100 seconds per 400 1200 - 4:50, pushed better on this one 800 - 3:24, running out of gas 400 - 89 seconds, at least it finished strong Wasn't able to keep the pace that I intended. But this was my first time doing this workout, so I didn't know what to expect. It was hard to get in a good rhythm because the distance changed so much. I might have enjoyed it better if I had just done 8x1200m. And it would have been just as good a workout. So I might ditch the ladder workout. We'll see. Also, other people were on the track and getting in my way, so that made it more difficulty. Let's say I roughly convert this run to 12x800m on paper. So a little more than the Yasso's 800m workout. It would be may 3:20 per 800m repeat. Which, according to his theory, would convert to a 3:20 marathon. That's probably not too different from where I am right now. But I'm training SOOOO much better than I have for my previous two marathons, which were right around this speed, so I'm hopeful I can improve on those times substantially. This workout gave me a lot of miles. I was super tired by the end. But I'm happy that I ran my highest weekly miles of the year (49) and had some great workouts. Next Saturday I'm doing a 5K on the track, so that will be fun.
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