Just a Little Bit of Race Fun

I have fallen off the face of the planet obviously.

The news:

1. I found a great job.
2. I have moved back to school to live in our apartment and work.
3. The apartment does not have internet.
4. Therefore Sam cannot blog.
5. Hopefully we can get internet set up within the next few days!

I’ll just break down my week’s training real quickly.

• Monday: off day
• Tuesday: 4.75 miles. (15 minute hill workout – 1.75 miles done)
• Wednesday: 6 mile mid week long run in 48:13 @ 8:02 pace
• Thursday: 5 mile run in 40:31 @ 8:06 pace
• Friday: 5 mile run in 40:00 @ 8:00 pace
• Saturday: unscheduled off day. Got home too late from helping clean up our house.
• Sunday: 7 mile long run in 55:30 @ 7:55 pace

 

Yesterday I ran the Macklind Mile for the 4th of July. I ran this race last year and you can see that recap here.

Going into the race, I didn’t even expect to PR since I have only been training for a few weeks and haven’t really done much speed work. But I love this race and it’s a fun time. I did have hopes to break 5:40 but would be content with breaking 5:50 to PR.

I am a long distance girl and only really know how to pace myself for long runs so the mile was a bit hard for me. I held back too much and had a lot left at the end but not another gear to switch to. My second quarter I held back too much thinking I didn’t want to die like last year. Well I’m in better shape than I think.

I ended up with a chip time of 5:41.0 so I was definitely content with that time at this point in the off season!

I finished 3rd in my age group of 20-24 and 11th woman overall out of 302.

After my race I had to do a workout because normally our workouts are tuesday and this week was a 3 mile progressive tempo. However since I raced on Monday, coach told me to just do a 15 minute fartlek after my race.

So after I watched the Elite Wave, Alex ran my fartlek with me. It was 2 minutes on, 1 minute off. So 2 minutes fast and 1 minute slower. If you’ve done a fartlek then you know that you keep this cycle until you’ve reached your time limit.

I was pretty shocked at how fast my on’s were. Especially after just racing. I hit 6:40 pace twice and a 6:45/6:50ish pace for a few others. The rest were at the beginning and around 7:15ish pace. My legs were still a bit jelly at the beginning.

Overall I had a great day! Pretty pumped for cross country, knowing that I am in shape for a 5:41 mile currently. That makes sub 6:30 pace for a 5k sound pretty obtainable. We’ll see though!

Not sure when I will be able to blog again, but I will once I get internet! Promise!

Q: Did you run a 4th of July Race?

Q: If not, what did you do on the 4th?