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August 1, 2008 (Night)

Exercise Type: Run

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BIG WORKOUT

2 mile Warmup

2x3 mile between 5:30-6min mile pace on Rail Trail w/ ~1 mile recovery

Interval 1:
5:13
5:38
5:50
=16:41

Interval 2:
5:27
5:45
5:24
=16:37

2 mile Cool Down

I was a nervous wreck going into this. I was running my 4th of July race twice with a mile in between for the most part. And I was also running absolutely alone on a route I run everyday and normally do in about 6:40/miles (where I'm not working, but I also never feel like I'm walking). Seriously about to start after doing striders all that fun stuff I was ready to just jog home and call my dad up and tell him I couldn't run tonight because I was having a nervous breakdown. I really was that scared of what would happen in the workout, I've never had to do a workout without anyone there, much less one so long (next closest I had ever done was a 1x2 mile).

Well I started my first one going way too fast. I didn't know how fast I was going, I just knew I needed to move so I did. After a quarter mile I was still freaking out and psyching myself out telling myself there's no way I could even do one of these. I reached the mile in 5:13, wow. At that point I knew I could only go two miles, went a lot faster than I thought I was freaking out approaching the mile hoping it wasn't going to be a 5:4X because I felt like I was going way too fast. Well I go through 2 miles at 5:38 and I intentionally slowed myself down because I felt like I was pushing way too hard. I didn't really slow down, but I got a grip on things and sort of figured it all out so I knew what to do. The last mile everything started shutting down. I would flicker in and out of being able to move and even though I had lost most of my fear of not being able to do the entire interval that last 400 was taking forever to reach. I was hoping to just hit 6:20 for it. Wound up doing 5:50! Wow!

So first interval was 16:42, extremely surprising given going out too quickly and a nervous wreck over it all.

During my recovery I got a hold of my nerves and kept thinking "what if i can close my last mile the fastest?". Since whenever I normally run back on the Rail Trail I close quicker and I also feel better because I'm running back towards home I normally feel like I'm going faster. All I wanted to do on the way back after running my first interval was break 17 minutes. I was going to try going even or so and then closing fast, but I was also nervous about going out in 5:40 and still slowing so I didn't break 17. One way or another I was going to go out more controlled this time.

Start of the next interval I went out much more comfortable but holy shit everything was heavy. Lactic acid had already settled in my quads and I felt awful. I went from semi excited for this interval to dreading it and seriously hoping I just reached the mile. I was hoping I was just at 5:40 or so for the mile, turned out I was 5:27. I was shocked. Kept moving well and making sure my toes struck the ground first and I pushed off through the next mile but I was also making sure to save a little for the last mile to try to kick like crazy now that I had this confidence after the first mile. Hit the second mile in 5:45. I was a little disappointed, I thought it would be closer to mid 35s but I was still okay with because I had energy. As soon as I hit the last mile I put it in another gear moving. I would lose it though and start to fall off, then I would gain it back again, then lose it. I wasn't falling off hard, just back to a hair slower than my second mile, but I wasn't maintaining. Kept on kicking and hit the last mile in 5:24, awesome, fastest one of the interval. Overall time was 16:37, faster than my first, even more awesome.

Really happy with how this went.