5k at the U tomorrow morning!
Legs are still a little tired from Wednesday’s 14.5 mile tempo/marathon pace run (well, let’s clarify, only 10 of it was at marathon pace or below), but what the heck, let’s see what they can do!
Wow — wouldn’t have guessed I could run sub 29:30, at all! I made a bet with Nate the night before: 15 minutes massage if I ran sub 30:00. His personal best is a 30:04, and my personal best before today was a 30:34. So, 29:59 seemed like a reasonable goal. My legs didn’t feel…
Yesterday’s speed workout (3×1 mile tempo, 3×1000, 3×400) reminded me that: 1. I am still very fit & fast. I was beginning to wonder! I honestly do not “feel” that way (vs. how I felt for Grandma’s cycle at this time). Tempo miles were clicking off in sub 5:50s, which is great.2. I NEED to…
I booked my flight tonight. 2 weeks, let’s get after this!
Chris Lundstrom, now the Team USA MN coach, saw the results from my first test and said, “Hmm, I don’t think you really maxed out, either.” Results and commentary on that test are here. This summer I had the opportunity to do two tests as part of a PhD student’s study. The first was sometime…
This is sad. I’ve done 40 miles in the last 4 days, and my body is pretty achy! My quads are tight, i’m feeling a little twinge in my back, and the ball of my foot hurts a little. The sad part is that I feel like that after averaging just 10 miles a day….
A short recap: Week 16: 84 miles (recovery week) 5×1000, 5x200m cut downs Long tempo workout that I nailed (did alone, and didn’t even stop! Yeah!) – recap here. Week 15: 109 miles 24 mile run with 3 cut down miles (20, 21, 22) at 6:30, 6:15, 6:00. 4×2 miles MP with .5 mile recovery…