Day 2 of 5K training: 3 miles
Still have some work to do... I ran late night tonight because I had work all day and I also had a dinner date with girlfriends (which I'd made before I knew I would be so busy today!).
I ran downhill and and then a flat course for 1.58 miles, which meant of course that coming back, there would be a flat course and then a vicious uphill!
I took Maggie with me, and she was a dream to run with. During the last two blocks of uphill, I actually let go of the leash and she just ran by my side as I huffed and puffed up the hill. Right now, I'm looking down and she is completely passed out on the carpet.
My time was quite good going out - I couldn't find my stopwatch but I started at 9:57pm. When I got to the turnaround, my phone said 10:13. I had stopped a couple blocks back to puff my inhaler and also to wait while Maggie went to the bathroom, so I think I averaged around a 10 minute mile coming out. Going back I went a bit slower, and it was 10:29pm when I arrived at home. I wasn't disappointed since that hill really was very hard.
I'm going to try to do at least some of yesterday's strength workout in intervals as I work on some things. Tomorrow, my training plan says to run 5 x 400s at my goal pace, which is 8:30. That comes out to about 2 minutes and 7 seconds per 400, as ultratodd pointed out. I was never very good with speed, as I mentioned before, so these will probably be tough for me, but I will try to hit my targets as best I can. I will walk down the same route I did tonight, and use the straightaways to do my 400s.
I ran downhill and and then a flat course for 1.58 miles, which meant of course that coming back, there would be a flat course and then a vicious uphill!
I took Maggie with me, and she was a dream to run with. During the last two blocks of uphill, I actually let go of the leash and she just ran by my side as I huffed and puffed up the hill. Right now, I'm looking down and she is completely passed out on the carpet.
My time was quite good going out - I couldn't find my stopwatch but I started at 9:57pm. When I got to the turnaround, my phone said 10:13. I had stopped a couple blocks back to puff my inhaler and also to wait while Maggie went to the bathroom, so I think I averaged around a 10 minute mile coming out. Going back I went a bit slower, and it was 10:29pm when I arrived at home. I wasn't disappointed since that hill really was very hard.
I'm going to try to do at least some of yesterday's strength workout in intervals as I work on some things. Tomorrow, my training plan says to run 5 x 400s at my goal pace, which is 8:30. That comes out to about 2 minutes and 7 seconds per 400, as ultratodd pointed out. I was never very good with speed, as I mentioned before, so these will probably be tough for me, but I will try to hit my targets as best I can. I will walk down the same route I did tonight, and use the straightaways to do my 400s.
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