Well, after about a month I'm finally back on the track and running consistantly to schedule. I had my first track workout on tuesday which was pretty successful. I did a broken mile in about 4:06. The workout was 2 sets of 8x100m at 1500m pace with 15sec recovery, ha. What I had to do was set my watch to countdown 15seconds and every time it beeped I had to go. If I finished the 100 in less then 15seconds then I had extra recovery and if I took longer to run the 100m then I had less recovery. On paper this sounds like a ridiculously easy workout, in reality however, it was tough!
The next day, on Wednesday I had one of the most fun runs I have had in a long time. Logan Burke and I went out to Thetis Lake to throw down an hour on the trails out there. I started the run in brand new never run in shoes and by the end of the run I don't think there was any white left on them at all. We were running through ankle high mud, shin high puddles, hurdling fallen trees, dodging roots and climbing up and down various pitches of hills. There were a lot of times I thought for sure one of us was going to roll an ankle or completely eat it, but ironically the only time either of us fell was on flat ground when I carelessly stumbled over a rock.
I was meant to have my second workout back this morning, however I slept through it... oops. So now I have to do it tonight after work at like 11pm. I'm actually pretty excited to do it at that time. It's been so nice and clear here lately, it'll be pretty cool to do a workout under the stars. It's another seemingly easy one on paper, but we'll see how it goes. 2(8x200) at 1500/3k pace with 1minute rest.
Slow and Steady
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