The group met at Bingham today to do mainly a track workout. Peggy had us do a broken 5K, so we first ran a 400, which I ran in 1:42, then an 800, which was 3:34, then 3 1000s. Peggy said to keep the times consistent. My times were 4:20, 4:25, and 4:23. Was that consistent? I was doing addition in my head as we ran, and I knew that to make 5000 meters that we had 800 meters left to do. I convinced myself I'd be able to handle that. Then Peggy sprung on us that we had to do a two mile tempo run. I wasn't sure I'd be able to handle that. I don't know what it is, when I'm in charge I can handle the tough workouts, when somebody else tells us what to do, I'm convinced I won't be able to do them. But you have to do them, so we headed off on our tried and true two mile route, thru Temple View, Bonanza, then Prospector. I was pleasantly surprised to see my final time as 14:38. The last time we ran that same route, a few weeks ago, my time was 15:09, so I'll take that improvement. Then back to the track to finish those 800 meters. We did a 400, time 1:36, then two 200s, times were 43 and 41. It was all very fun.
Later I ran two very easy miles on the treadmill. |