What a Wonderful Workout!!

My workout yesterday went amazing! Especially because it was insanely windy and a bit cold. The weather was in a limbo between cold and warm. It was cold enough for a long sleeve but wear shorts. Too cold for just short sleeve but a bit too warm for long sleeve after the warmup. Probably a perfect day for arm warmers. Those are at school.

Workout: 6 x 800m with 2:00 rest in between

Warm-up: 1 mile

Goal times for 800m were 3:18-3:20 which is 6:36-6:40 pace

splits went:

• 3:15
• 3:15
• 3:15
• 3:15
• 3:16
• 3:17

So 6:30 pace, 6:32 pace and 6:34 pace.

I’m feeling great, that was at 5k pace. So to put it in perspective for you and I,

• 6:30 pace 5k = 20:11
• 6:34 pace 5k = 20:24

So EXTREMELY close to breaking 20 which is my goal!!! How exciting!!

Cool down: 1 mile

Total mileage for the day: 5 miles

It also helped I was rockin’ some awesome spandex shorts from Val’s Customized.

Q: Do you own any funky training clothes?

I love spandex and crazy designs!!

Q: How do you celebrate a good workout?

I devoured some skittles on my drive home!!

Someone should give me coordination

Today’s classes included:

• Organic and Biological Chemistry

Perks of the class:

• The teacher’s name is Mohammad Ali
• He is a Jayhawks fan
• He has great jokes

Cons of the class:

• It’s chemistry, what else is there?

Breakfast

Waffle Wednesday!!! Perfect pre-workout fuel.

Running

3x800m repeats on indoor track with 800m recovery jog in between.

1. 1 mile warm up
2. Pre workout drills
3. Goal pace for 800m: 3:26
4. Splits went something like this: 3:19, 3:22, 3:21
5. 1 mile cool down

total miles for the day: 4.5 miles

Thoughts during drills:

• This is so embarrassing, my coordination sucks.
• I cannot do these drills.
• I will probably hurt myself from doing them wrong.

Thoughts during warm up:

• This shouldn’t be too bad.
• Ugh the air in the gym sucks.
• Indoor tracks are awful.

Thoughts during workout:

• This feels easy.
• Should I go faster?
• Should I go slower?

Thoughts after:

• That was easy.
• Should’ve ran faster.

Lunch

• Tuna Sandwich on Wheat
• Actually an apple, not a banana but my other photo is on my phone

Dinner

Pagliai’s Pizza. Unpictured. Sausage and Spinach on Whole Wheat Crust.

Last Week of my Cross Country Season

 

① Monday

5 mile easy run

time: 45:30

pace: 9:06 min/mile

9:18

8:34

8:37

8:53

10:04 - haha it was really awful running on the grass. just felt slow and sluggish.

 

② Tuesday

10 minute warmup

5 x 800m repeats @ 3:15 goal pace

splits went: 3:10, 3:17, 3:16, 3:15, 3:14

10 minute cooldown

mileage for the day: 4.5 miles

and animal crackers. I only had 10 minutes before class since practice went late.

my friend brent!!!

Alex :D

 

That was my wonderful two days thus far!!

Next post: Preview of next semesters classes