March 12, 2012 (Night)
Exercise Type: Run
Comments:
Want to have a good tempo? here's the secret:
-run a high milage week in a crammed amount of time
-take 2.5 days off
-spend these days drinking significant amounts of alcohol and down chocolate bars like there will be NO tomorrow to do it in
-climb a mountain, just for shits and giggles
-skip running on the day that you MEANT to and instead elect to climb around on a waterfall, go visit a castle remains, have a nice cup of coffee and sit around for a few hours
-eat mexican/spanish/brazilian/portuguese/whatever that was
-sleep all afternoon the next day instead of running that tempo
-tempo? what tempo?
-oh crap it's getting dark. I'm still asleep but I'll go try to tempo now
-still be half asleep through the entire tempo
-turn steady tempo into split tempo because you realize that you need to use nature's toilet (this doubles as recovery!)
This, folks, is how it's done. :D
Followed with 6 by 30 second accelerations at very quick pace, minute recovery between.
Now I am hungry. and dirty. I go amend this situation now.
| Distance | Duration | Pace | Interval Type | Shoes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.9 Miles | 1:14:22 | |||
| 2.1 Miles | 17:15 | 8:12 / Mile | Warmup | Asics Gel-Nimbus 12 |
| 2.5 Miles | 16:01 | 6:24 / Mile | Tempo | Asics Gel-Nimbus 12 |
| 2.5 Miles | 16:14 | 6:29 / Mile | Tempo | Asics Gel-Nimbus 12 |
| 1.1 Miles | 8:00 | 7:16 / Mile | Asics Gel-Nimbus 12 | |
| 1.7 Miles | 16:52 | 9:55 / Mile | Cooldown | Asics Gel-Nimbus 12 |