Had a good meeting in NYC yesterday. It's a potential big project for me so I was a bit nervous before heading down there but everything went well so I'm excited!
Now, back to running . . .
Ah, yes. My Tuesday intervals. The plan was for me to run 1.5 miles for warm-up, 6 x 400 @ 1:45 and then a mile cool-down. I made sure to hydrate well in the morning and eat a late morning snack. After feeding my son some lunch, I put him down for a nap and headed into the basement for my speed work.
(Luckily, I didn't run into any creatures down there!)
I did it! And it was tough. Oh, yeah. Very tough. Maybe I don't warm-up well or something because the first repeat was really hard to finish. The second one was a little easier and then the third, fourth and fifth repeats felt OK. The last one was puke-worthy, but I finished it. I'm thinking that maybe I need to get up to speed a little at the end of my warm-up. I ran the 1.5 miles at a 10min pace -- maybe I should increase my speed over the last half mile? I'm not sure. What do you speedsters do?
Anyway, after the speed work I cooled down for 1.25 miles and followed the workout with a nice stretching session. It feels good to be in training mode.
After my off (travel) day yesterday, I'm back for an easy 4-miler this evening. The weather is crisp today so I can't wait to head out! Yay!
Have a good day!
~ Felice
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Repeated success.
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thank you so much for my emails! I look fwd to them when I get them and am reading every word! I hope one day I can look fwd to running like you! Right now it is still a chore......happy training!
Yay for successful intervals!!
Good work buddy.. I am not a huge warm up person, so I have no advice. I am VERY glad you did not get attacked by rabid Mice. BEst of luck with you NEW project.
I'm not much of a "speedster" per se, but I like to ease my warmup into my workout for two reasons. First, it's like the story that a frog will jump out of the pot if you turn up the heat too fast, but if you slowly increase the temperature he won't. A little morbid, but applied to running, if I increase the speed slowly, I find I can go faster and longer than going from say 6.0 to 7.0 immediately. Second, I get bored going one speed for too long, so even my steady runs I vary the speed up and down a little so it gives me something to do.
Congrats on nailing those intervals! That is speedy, lady!
I always try to gradually pick up the pace during the last 0.5 of the warm-up, just top ease my legs into it. If I'm outside, I'll do a few short & fast strides instead.
Great job on the intervals. i do about an 1/2 mile warm up but because I am on the track i can then do some walking stretches and warm up stuff that we did when I was on the track team. That helps to get my muscles all set. Plus i sometimes do a couple of little mini accelerations so that I touch some speed before i start. Maybe just try varying speeds on the treadmill.
Great job!
Good stuff all around!!
I'd love some crisp weather!
can you come yell at me with a bull horn or something... that's the only thing I can think of to help motivate me to do speedwork.
Amanda -- I was yelling at myself with an internal bull horn!! :-)
Nice repeats! I love a good stretching sesson too. I should do it more often.
Ummm, I do what you do and take my warmups slow. For some reason, it kinda works...
sounds like things are going your way! YAY!
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