Tuesday Speedwork Session

Our summer has lasted well into September this year. At 6:30pm my car was telling me it was 83 degrees outside. It was a great evening to run. So I headed up to the track at Milton Academy for 5 miles worth of speedwork. The planned workout was 2x1200m with 600m recovery at 10K pace, 4x400m with 200m recovery at 5K race pace, 4x200m with 100m recovery at 5K race pace. I added a 400m warm up and 400m cool down as well. So here is what it turned out like...

• 400m wu: 2:26
• 2x1200m @ 10K (600m): 5:19 (3:26); 5:12 (3:39)
• 4x400m @ 5K (200m): 1:43 (1:12); 1:44 (1:11); 1:42 (1:17); 1:45 (1:08)
• 4x200m @ 5K (100m): 0:51 (0:49); 0:51 (0:36); 0:49 (0:40); 0:50 (0:39)
• 400m cd: 2:05

Maybe I do some of these too fast, but I feel good. I use about a 7:35 ish 10K pace estimate and a 7:10 ish 5K estimate. Now if I did the math wrong, I'll really be in trouble. I use my new Ironman watch when I do track workouts since I figure I don't need my big Garmin 205 laptop computer on my wrist.

This warm weather is supposed to continue into tomorrow when the heat will become extremely oppressive with a high of 88 degrees. September 26th and an 88 degree forecast - unbelievable!

Total miles for today: 5.00

Comeback Kid

I'm back... again. So it's been a full summer off from blogging, but not running. I did stop training for the Mohawk Hudson Marathon in light of a foot injury due to my crazy hips. I switched my training to the BAA Half Marathon which is on October 7th. Everything went well except for a few glitches here and there with my hips, but all in all I got all my workouts in and did well in almost all of them. So I guess this is my Paula Radcliffe comeback except I'm not as famous and I'm not getting nearly as much publicity.

I've taken up a yoga practice and will be starting a yoga teacher training in November with Finding Inner Peace. My little sister and I are contemplating a marathon in March. I want to wait and see how this half goes first. I think that will give me some time to evaluate where I am and where I want to be and also to figure out how much time I can devote to marathon training. I really would look forward to the increased mileage though. I am also looking forward to running in the cooler weather. I know, I know... in winter I want warmer weather, in summer I want cooler weather. Hey, I'm a woman, my mind is constantly changing!

Yesterday I ran the Marshall Degan Road Race in Quincy, Massachusetts and was the first woman overall, first in my age group, and got a new 5K PR. I was so excited because this was my first overall win. I hope there will be many more to come with even faster times.

Today was a rest day so I took a 7:30 yoga class at Healing Tree Yoga & Wellness Center. I'm journalling too so I got in a little bit of that before class which was nice. Tomorrow I have a speedworkout planned so I'm going to get to bed early so that maybe I can get to work early and out a little early (fingers crossed). I may see if I can change my work hours now that winter is coming and it will be darker. I don't want to run after work in the dark for too long.