Training 2008-W16

After last Sunday's long run, I took a day off then managed to hit the pool between otherwise scheduled events on Tuesday for a quick 1000m, all in 10x100 @ 2:30. That's not quick at all, in fact, but I might need some time with a coach to evolve from floundering-gorilla status.

My apologies to any gracefully-swimming gorilla readers.

Wednesday I hit the evening Striders run for the usual mile warmup to the store, 4.5 miles at a tempo pace (~8:30) and a mile jog home. I ran into (and therewith) a fellow Sammy alum who I hadn't seen in about a decade; a pleasant surprise.

Friday was beautiful and springly: call it 65 and sunny, near-perfect afternoon-break-from-the-office-run weather. I was due for some intervals, so I did 10x400m sprints ("sprints" being relative, in the 7:15-7:30/mi range) with 400m jogs (10:30) in-between. I was impressed in the aftergraph that my sprints stayed quite consistent in pace, given how tired by legs had gotten by the final few.

The weekend was rainier, but I caught a bit of partly-sunny on Sunday afternoon for an 11-mile loop eastward, downhill to Gates Mills village and then back up the Chagrin valley and home. I was aiming for a marathon-pace run (not knowing quite what marathon-pace is) and ended up with a 9:20 moving average. That included some crazy hills, so I'll do the rest of my workouts assuming a 9:00-9:15 marathon pace, meaning next week's 20-miler gets a 9:30-9:45 goal.

Spring weather is good.