Training Log Archive: ebone

Warm-up jogging, mostly with Terry, at the Club Northwest all-comers track meet.

Joggers Mile predicted time race. The object is to run--without wearing a watch--as close to your predicted time as possible (and times under 5:00 can not be considered jogging and thus are grounds for disqualification.) I predicted that I would run 6:10, and after a 1:29 first lap, I slowed just enough to run exactly my predicted time and won--just like in the good ole days!

Terry predicted she would run 11:00, then she crossed that out and put 10:30...then crossed that out and put 10:15. She ended up running 9:14, doing quite poorly in the predicted-time event, but being surprised and pleased at her fitness being better than she expected.

A bit of jogging to stay somewhat warmed up between the Joggers Mile and the mile race.

I ran the mile race, treating it as a long interval, rather than as an all-out race. I listed a seed time of 5:30, thinking my time would be around there, or maybe 5:25. Putting together four 80-second laps seemed like it would probably be out of reach, given my total lack of interval training and general lack of much training at all lately.

However, I was pleasantly surprised to run 78, 80, 80, 77, even feeling like kicking a bit on the last lap and passing a few runners. It felt fast but good--a fun race.