Speed work today on a very tired mind, body, and everything else. My son woke us up from 11pm to 5am every hour complaining that his leg hurt. We know it was growing pains, because I remember our girls going through this. My sister-in-law and pastor
who are also running the Pocatello Marathon (at a 9:30 pace per mile) asked if I wanted to run the
back side of the Pocatello marathon. My sister-in-law's house is
right down the street from mine, which is nice. This course is downhill and is 8 miles. My mom was driving them up to the top of Rapid Creek/Buckskin where the marathon starts. I decided not to because I wanted to stayed dedicated and do speed work, but I guess I could have set my Garmin to run the repeats every 400s on the downhill course? Oh well they were leaving by 5:30am and I didn't even get out of bed until 6:20am.
Back to this morning run. First off I did about a 3 mile warm-up. I then did 7 x 400 and 2 x800 (didn't keep the time on the 800's) not very good times. I even took a lap rest in-between each one.
Times 78 (slow) 82 (Hey even slower) 81 (I'm following a slow routine here) 83 (Wow I must have had rocks in my shoes) 86 (Must have feel asleep very poor performance) 80 (I must have woke up for a second) 95 (now this one I had an excuse the wind picked up and it starting hailing) My goal was to hit 70 seconds as you can see not even close . Oh well just need more training. Totals: 12.10 miles at a overall pace 6:32 in 1:19. |