Workout: Pop pilates: Total Body Workout and Butt Challenge; 10 minute HIIT challenge
BEAUTIFUL!! Right?!! Okay, maybe it is more of a nostalgic beautiful (if there is such a thing). But I think I got goose bumps when I stepped out onto that black beauty. So many memories came rushing back, and I forgot how cushy a track's surface is, and the sun was shining, and there was a little cool breeze, and no one was there!!! So I had the track ALL TO MYSELF!!! I was a very happy lady!
I did an easy mile warm up, and then decided I would do 6 x 400 repeats with 20 seconds rest in between. This is kind of my standard go to speed work, but normally I run by pace. I did something different this time. I decided to run by feel. Totally living on the edge, I know!!
400 #1: 1:46 - eek! Too fast.
#2: 1:45 - Hmmm. That felt comfortably hard. But, that is too fast.
#3: 1:46 - Cool! Must be having a good day because that felt great!
#4: 1:44 - Okay, either I am going to die these last two or I'm finally getting some speed back!
#5: 1:45
#6: 1:39 - Pushed it hard here to end fast.
So, a 1:45 400 is a 7 minute mile pace. I normally run my 400s at a 7:20-7:25 pace. The first 2 repeats it was incredibly hard not to look at my Garmin to check my pace, but by the third one I didn't even think about the watch until the very end to hit stop. I don't know if these fast times were just a fluke, but I would like to think I am finally getting some speed back. That thing called "speed" somehow totally disappeared after having Orlando, and it hasn't come back at all!:(( I miss it! I have a race in two weeks so we shall see if I am finally getting faster.
BEAUTIFUL!! Right?!! Okay, maybe it is more of a nostalgic beautiful (if there is such a thing). But I think I got goose bumps when I stepped out onto that black beauty. So many memories came rushing back, and I forgot how cushy a track's surface is, and the sun was shining, and there was a little cool breeze, and no one was there!!! So I had the track ALL TO MYSELF!!! I was a very happy lady!
I did an easy mile warm up, and then decided I would do 6 x 400 repeats with 20 seconds rest in between. This is kind of my standard go to speed work, but normally I run by pace. I did something different this time. I decided to run by feel. Totally living on the edge, I know!!
400 #1: 1:46 - eek! Too fast.
#2: 1:45 - Hmmm. That felt comfortably hard. But, that is too fast.
#3: 1:46 - Cool! Must be having a good day because that felt great!
#4: 1:44 - Okay, either I am going to die these last two or I'm finally getting some speed back!
#5: 1:45
#6: 1:39 - Pushed it hard here to end fast.
So, a 1:45 400 is a 7 minute mile pace. I normally run my 400s at a 7:20-7:25 pace. The first 2 repeats it was incredibly hard not to look at my Garmin to check my pace, but by the third one I didn't even think about the watch until the very end to hit stop. I don't know if these fast times were just a fluke, but I would like to think I am finally getting some speed back. That thing called "speed" somehow totally disappeared after having Orlando, and it hasn't come back at all!:(( I miss it! I have a race in two weeks so we shall see if I am finally getting faster.
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