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Month: February 2011
And the knee makes a triumphant comeback!
I planned to do speedwork tonight, but decided to swap tonight’s workout with tomorrow’s and do 3 miles instead. I was worried about my knee after the 8-mile-grinding-super-ouchy-times thing on Sunday.
My knee felt AWESOME. In fact, my legs felt great the whole time. My lungs felt great. Everything was great. I pushed myself harder than usual, and surprised myself by realizing that I could stand to push myself even harder next time.
3 miles in 28:36 (average 9:31 pace). The last mile was sub-9:00, and I even got up to 8:30 pace at one point (unprecedented for me on the treadmill).
I wanted to jump off and rest for a second about 2.5 miles in, but I just kept thinking, “Legs feel great. Lungs feel great. Keep going. Don’t quit.” Sure enough, I finished just fine.
Not only do I need to push myself more, but I need to believe that I can rock it.
I’m excited for speedwork tomorrow. Let’s go!
My company has a kegerator.
The kegerator has its own profile on the company Web site. His name is Hugo.
Just throwing that out there.
I’ve officially gone rogue from Hal Higdon’s training plan. The painful 8-miler yesterday required a lighter workout than running today, so I did Level 2 of Jillian Michaels’ 30 Day Shred DVD instead of a previously scheduled 3 mile run.
I also just adapted the rest of the training plan to fit my schedule in an Excel spreadsheet. I threw in rest days to work around important activities like trivia night with my roommates at a bar (tomorrow), etc. Vital events, you know.
I also feel, Hal Higdon, that runs longer than 5 miles aren’t exactly necessary for 5K training. At least not for me. At least not for the way that I jumped into the middle of an 8-week training plan without properly building up my mileage. Eh-hem.
Anyway, I think even my modified training plan will help me run faster/better in the next 5K. This is the first time I’ve actually trained with a schedule instead of just randomly running however much I feel like running, so I hope it’ll pay off!
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