AM - Joined the team. I kind of don't like doing it too much. It's just a lot of waiting around for people, running other people's paces and generally feeling out of place. Once we finally got going and after a mile of the most miserably boring jog ever, we did the usual 1.5 mile time trial down the right frontage road. It's a fun one because there are some ever so slight rollers, slight down hill and a lot of flatness. When I was thinking about this two week ago I thought sub-7 would be good, but then I thought this would be several more weeks out. I went out a little stupid, but I just wanted to find out where my fitness was. I was lucky enough that I wasn't totally out of shape, and I didn't slow too much. 2:22, 2:33, 2:22. 7:17 total. My brother caught me after the half mile mark and even tried to drop me a few times, but he was laboring, and I've definitely upped my racing game a notch. We worked off of each other the last half mile, and then I pulled a head by about a second in the final couple meters. Pretty sweet off of nothing to really get the legs rolling. I literally rolled out of bed and ran well below 5 minute pace. The sweet thing is, Jensen is already showing signs of greatness this season.
PM - I've been listening to a ton of the Magness and Marcus podcast on coaching at work, and, besides all the gems of people and coaching knowledge, I am going to be attempting to switch my running to more time and effort based focus instead of the distance based way I've always done in order to maximize recovery, time on feet and overall endurance. For me, running by time is a much more mentally taxing way to run than by running by distance, thus a new place to grow.
Did a 1k warm up and then some grass, downhill sprints 2x30,40,50,60 walking stride length intervals. Followed it up with a 15 minute cool down at 8 minute pace. I figure running fast for easy miles only really benefits on runs not labeled recovery, warm up (the easy section at least) or cool down.
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