Training Log Archive: j-man

Eastern Canadian Championships, August 1997, Sutton, Quebec.

Got out the door a bit late, so I had to run a portion of this briskly. Time is an estimate.

Once I got there, warmup with the CSU crowd.

Form exercises and stretches.

Final warmup, with strides.

(This was a bit too much warmup for me.)

CSU track workout. Program was 1200 x 2, 1,000 x 2, 800 x 2, all with 200 meters jogging rest. Somehow the rest wasn't that consistent.

Anyway, Terry (who I thought I should be the same speed as) said he was doing 5:20 mile pace (and by that, apparently not 5:20 VO2 pace, but just 80 second laps--which I thought was doable.)

It looks like I started out fast and faded fast. Truly, at the end, I was dragging.

405
200

416
124

335
129

339
203

250
209

251

It also looks like I never hit the goal pace. The average lap times are as follows:

1st 1200: 81.67
2nd 1200: 85.33
1st 1000: 86.00
2nd 1000: 87.60
1st 800: 85.00
2nd 800: 85.50

I did not take intermediate times, but I think I faded on each lap as the gap with Terry seemed to balloon on 2 and 3.

Back home, as a cooldown. I realized I had left my IPod back at the track and had to go back to get it.

I was quite exhausted by the time I got home.