Friday 1/8/2010

Workout @ Reggie Lewis Center - 11.5 miles

Warm up: 23 minutes
Workout: 8oo, 800, mile, 800, 800, mile, 400, 400 w/ 2:30 between 800, 4:00 between mile, and 90 sec between 400.
Cooldown: 23 minutes

Today was the second workout of the week. At first I was a bit nervous because the intervals were longer than what we did on Monday but to my surprise it felt much better than I was expecting. I workout partners were Jenn, Andrea, Avery, Dan and Peter. The initial plan was to run the 800s at 2:24 - 2:26, Mile at 5:00 and 400s at 71s. As expected the first interval was a bit slow. The first 800 felt really hard and in top of that we were slower than target pace, which gave me the impression I was going to struggle with the rest of the workout but that wasn't the case. the first set went as follow: 800 (2:29), 800 (2:28), and (5:01). The second set felt much easier and was also a bit faster. I went into the second set wanting to run the mile sub 5:00. I wasn't really worry about the last two 400, I knew I was going to be able to push trought it. The second set was as follow: 800 (2:27), 800 (2:27), and mile (4:56). The 4 minutes rest after the mile was more than enough time to fully recover from the previous set. Although the 800s were one or two seconds off the target pace I was very happy with how the workout went up to this point. All I had left was the 400s. Kevin wanted the 400s to be faster than the pace for the 800s and that we did. I was surprise that I run as fast as I did. I run 400 (66), and 400 (65). Overall it was a great workout for me.