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Stewart park 800 workout

March 19, 2016 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Run

Comments:
Instead of the typical Saturday team builder we did the workout today. We started with a warmup into Fall Creek then across the golf course and into Stewart Park. We got to Stewart where we were doing an 800 workout. The workout was:
8x800 progressively getting quicker with a 2 min jogging recovery.
I mapped the distance of each rep to be about .55 miles but cutting the tangents that was more like .52, so each time is about 7 seconds faster per rep. In the warmup and first few 800's I really did not feel all that good. I just felt all off and my breathing was off also. I did feel better and better throughout the workout though. The first 3 800's were definitely too slow for me even if we were progressively going faster. I just really didn't want to have people feel the need to go at my pace when the pace that's best for them is a little slower. Also it was early in the workout so I didn't want them to push it too much that early in the workout. I only went my own pace for the last 800's when I was alone. Those felt the best cause I was going my own pace. Silas picked it up for the 4th one which I was fine with, because that was closer to my pace. But a little quicker than what the rest of the guys were ready for at that time, which is probably why Ian dropped off. Being a progressive workout it would be hard to drop from a 2:40 fir everyone for another 4 800's so that's why we went the same pace so they would only need to drop the pace for 3 more 800's instead of 4. These all felt pretty easy. So I decided it was time to go for the last two to really work the end. I should have even gone hard for the 6th one but I didn't. The last 2 I just wanted to see what I could go. I got the fatigue feeling in my legs for a small part of the 7th one and was feeling that race feeling again in the 8th one which is good. These two were 2:29 and 2:24 or 2:22 and 2:17 converted which is a 4:39 last mile which is a pretty good indicator of my fitness. Finished with a cooldown back to the high school. As Silas was saying inhis log, Ian is having some problems mentally getting over the hump in running. He just doesn't ahve any self confidence. he said that all he thinks about when he's runnign is how much pain he's in. you really can't think like that and be successful. The best thign to do is not think at all when you're running. But if you can't do that just focus on form. Just something to get your mind off the pain. Soemthing I do a lot is tell myself "Hey I feel pretty good, and push that pain out of your mind" if you can really convince yourself it will help a lot. I told Ian these things but at the end of the day confidence comes from yourself and he's gotta just get himself pumped up and tell himself that he's a elite runner. After the cooldown Silas showed my a test to see if my hips were tight and they definitely are so I stretched them out for awhile. Back exercises, stretching and rolling afterwards.
Paces were(time for .52)(time for 800):
3:02- 2:55
2:52- 2:45
2:49- 2:42
2:40- 2:33
2:41- 2:34
2:39- 2:32
2:29- 2:22
2:24- 2:17