Wednesday, October 25, 2006
The Need for Speed
Today's Run: 3m
Run Time: 24:44
Total Miles to Date: 73.2
Thoughts on the Run:
Today at work, I patronized one of our customers, Raving Brands, by ordering a burrito from Moe's Southwestern Grill. It had chicken and black beans and was delicious. It was also quite large and I was quite full.
We ordered around 1pm, but because it was lunchtime and it was a large order (the entire office chipped in) the meal did not arrive until 2:30pm. Therefore, I found myself eating at 3pm. Normally, I'd drive home and do my workout, but I knew I'd have to wait a few hours for this to settle.
So, I took care of some other items and found myself descending into the basement to tackle my speed workout at around 7:30pm.
It was cool but not freezing in the basement and fortunately there were no breezes to chew on. Just me, my treadmill, and my MP3. I decided that as I was pushing pace, I'd use a little music to help it all along.
I jumped up on the treadmill, set the pace to 5.2 mph and warmed up for a few minutes before stepping into my paces. The paces went like this:
1 minute @ 6.2 mph (9:40 pace)
1 minute @ 7.2 mph (8:20 pace)
1 minute @ 8.2 mph (7:19 pace)
1 minute @ 9.2 mph (6:31 pace)
The first minute felt easy. Second was just about right. Third minute seemed to pushing a little hard but then I realized, with training, I could definitely maintain this ... at least on the nice, flat treadmill. The last minute was tough, pushing myself, but soon it was over and I cycled back to the comfortable 9:40 pace.
I repeated this cycle 5 times. The fifth time, I did a stair-up, stair-down. This means at the end of my 6:31 pace minute, instead of falling back down to the 9:40, I just stepped back to 7:19. I kept climbing back each minute.
At the peak, the last 6:31 minute, my legs felt like rubber and my breathing was definitely huffing and puffing. However, I forced myself to focus on the strides and to breathe deeply and try to get into a rhythm. That and the throbbing techno music I was listening too brought me through the minute. Of course, my body was psyched to go real slow after that so I had to maintain it a bit as I fell back to the 8.2 mph pace. I hung on, however, and hit the 7.2 mph / 8:20 pace. At the end of the minute, I just couldn't bring myself to slow down. I figured, this is a good pace for me, to train with, to stick with, so stay there.
And stay there I did until I hit 3.0 miles in 24:44. I was satisfied, then began slowing by 1mph each minute to cool down until I was walking at a 2.2 mph pace.
Then it was up to post, now it's down to eat, shower, and catch tonights episode of Lost!
Jeremy
Run Time: 24:44
Total Miles to Date: 73.2
Thoughts on the Run:
Today at work, I patronized one of our customers, Raving Brands, by ordering a burrito from Moe's Southwestern Grill. It had chicken and black beans and was delicious. It was also quite large and I was quite full.
We ordered around 1pm, but because it was lunchtime and it was a large order (the entire office chipped in) the meal did not arrive until 2:30pm. Therefore, I found myself eating at 3pm. Normally, I'd drive home and do my workout, but I knew I'd have to wait a few hours for this to settle.
So, I took care of some other items and found myself descending into the basement to tackle my speed workout at around 7:30pm.
It was cool but not freezing in the basement and fortunately there were no breezes to chew on. Just me, my treadmill, and my MP3. I decided that as I was pushing pace, I'd use a little music to help it all along.
I jumped up on the treadmill, set the pace to 5.2 mph and warmed up for a few minutes before stepping into my paces. The paces went like this:
1 minute @ 6.2 mph (9:40 pace)
1 minute @ 7.2 mph (8:20 pace)
1 minute @ 8.2 mph (7:19 pace)
1 minute @ 9.2 mph (6:31 pace)
The first minute felt easy. Second was just about right. Third minute seemed to pushing a little hard but then I realized, with training, I could definitely maintain this ... at least on the nice, flat treadmill. The last minute was tough, pushing myself, but soon it was over and I cycled back to the comfortable 9:40 pace.
I repeated this cycle 5 times. The fifth time, I did a stair-up, stair-down. This means at the end of my 6:31 pace minute, instead of falling back down to the 9:40, I just stepped back to 7:19. I kept climbing back each minute.
At the peak, the last 6:31 minute, my legs felt like rubber and my breathing was definitely huffing and puffing. However, I forced myself to focus on the strides and to breathe deeply and try to get into a rhythm. That and the throbbing techno music I was listening too brought me through the minute. Of course, my body was psyched to go real slow after that so I had to maintain it a bit as I fell back to the 8.2 mph pace. I hung on, however, and hit the 7.2 mph / 8:20 pace. At the end of the minute, I just couldn't bring myself to slow down. I figured, this is a good pace for me, to train with, to stick with, so stay there.
And stay there I did until I hit 3.0 miles in 24:44. I was satisfied, then began slowing by 1mph each minute to cool down until I was walking at a 2.2 mph pace.
Then it was up to post, now it's down to eat, shower, and catch tonights episode of Lost!
Jeremy
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