Today I decided to do a different type of training to see if I could really hammer my legs and test my fitness level. I first started off climbing the hill that you've see in my past elevation charts. The first few mile pace times were 7:02, 7:01, 7:31, (very steep section, I struggled on this section I felt), then 6:56. Now the next couple of miles are downhill and I wanted to push not real hard, but hard enough that I felt I was getting a work out. These sections I know I could probably run in the high 4 minute miles but I wanted to stay in the low 6 minute pace per mile. My splits were 6:24 6:05, 6:01. Now the experiment I wanted to try to get out of this training run is to see how my legs would handle the next three miles on the flat course to finish off the run. I wanted to test how well my legs would transition to the flat part by pushing with tempo speeds to the end. My splits for the next three miles were 5:53, 6:02, and finishing at 6:11 and I felt pretty good and not really that fatigue after the run so that was exciting. Total pace average per mile was 6:30 in 1:06 for 10.2 miles.
I also ran on the treadmill on my lunch hour for 2.5 miles at a 7 minute mile pace. I was mainly at the healthly club to do a full body workout and not really run that much |