Training Log Archive: j-man

This is going to hurt:

(1200, 1000, 800) x 2 @ 8K, 5K, 3K pace

All w/200 rest

To the track. Felt great on the run, but a little GI deterioration at the end. Luckily, the bathroom at Soldiers' Field was open, and things were put back in order.

Stretches and running drills.

Two laps with 4 x 100M strides on the straights.

My goal this week was to run more consistently, or rather not fade hard on the final intervals. Mission accomplished.

Largely, the same guys were here this week. But, the tall, 40ish, skinnyish guy was there (we'll call him "Bob"--not there last week.) He was to prove invaluable.

[Why am I so bad with names?]

I decided to not worry about Terry and the rabbit (tallish dark haired guy). I couldn't do much about them last week, and there were other guys closer to my pace.

I really do think Terry speeds up on later laps. Also, he seems faster (relative to the rabbit) on shorter intervals. The rabbit was far out ahead on the first 1200.

Anyway, "Bob" was great. He seems pretty consistent. I would normally start out ahead of him (except that I drafted off him the whole first interval) but he would pretty consistently pass me on later ones at ~800M, whereupon I would draft on him largely to the end. I think he really kept me going, but not going erratically, as I would have done on my own.

408
139

323
211

240
214

410
146

322
222

237

Average lap times were:
82.67
81.20
80.00
83.33
80.80
78.50

No fade.

Back home. Felt very good this way, too.