Today’s Lesson: Don’t Chase Rabbits on Your Long Run
It turns out, that there are actual rabbits at Green Lake. Well… there used to be tons of them. They were wild, and people always fed them, and some people let their unwanted easter bunnies loose there… it was sort of sad, because these poor little domesticated creatures didn’t really have the street smarts to be living out doors. There are dogs, cars, and raccoons who love to make minced rabbit out of them.
Well, I didn’t make the mistake of chasing those rabbits on my long run today (which featured three laps of Green Lake plus a lot of hills before and after). But I did make the mistake of chasing down a guy who passed me. There was some upside… namely he was a really nice guy, and we got to chatting, and that made the run go better. But the downside was that this guy was running MUCH TOO fast for me.
Catching him took some serious effort, and then “hanging with him”, even though he slowed his pace to run with me, was far more effort than I planned. Honestly, it was far more effort than I could afford considering that this was my longest run in almost 9 months. To top it off, this run had almost 1100ft of ascent and descent on it. It wasn’t exactly flat… in fact… it was designed to be a long run with hills… and that second set of hills, after running with the rabit for 5 miles, was almost impossible.
So, what happens when you chase down a rabbit at 6 miles of a 21 mile long run? What happens when that guy is actually much faster and more conditioned than you? What happens when you still have 600 ft more of climbing to do? You go from sad, to sadder, to dead man shuffle!
The other downside to running with this guy was that I got off of my prescribed route, and that meant guessing at my mileage and splits… and ultimate my splits were off… but… I did hit almost exactly 21 miles, and I finished in about a 9min/mile pace, and I got one heck of a workout in.
Splits:
Des Asc Split Avg HR
Mile 1 150 0 8:18 146
Mile 2 0 220 9:37 149
Mile 3 160 20 7:39 152
Mile 4 70 150 8:04 151
Mile 5 40 40 9:00 149
Mile 6 10 10 8:07 151
Mile 7 10 10 8:24 153
Mile 8 10 10 6:58 160
Mile 9 10 10 8:32 158
Mile 10 10 10 8:06 153
Mile 11 10 10 9:36 144
Mile 12 10 60 8:40 144
Mile 13 200 10 8:49 142
Mile 14 20 200 9:34 147
Mile 15 180 100 10:02 146
Mile 16 40 80 9:31 143
Mile 17 10 10 9:30 140
Mile 18 10 10 10:11 143
Mile 19 10 10 9:55 144
Mile 20 0 80 10:07 142
Mile 20.8 95 5 8:06 129
Workout:
- Type: Run
- Date: 08/30/2008
- Time: 22:43:56
- Total Time: 3:06:45.00
- Average Heart rate: 147
- Max Heart rate: 175
- Calories: 2113
- Distance: 20.8 miles
- Average Pace: 8:58.92/mile
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Today’s Lesson: Don’t Chase Rabbits on Your Long Run
August 31st, 2008 2:08 am
Karl On Sea says:
Oh, that’s funny - I love the graphics too! Looks like a great run!
August 31st, 2008 10:25 am
greenking17 says:
Nice job Brad! I love your training stories. how did you get the graphics on here…or, how did you do any of that? Do you use Garmin or GPS? Jus twondering, i really dig it! Keep it up.
August 31st, 2008 2:07 pm
xr4000 says:
nice job on the 21 miler brad.
so ive been looking at the bike profile for the silverman and the more i look at it the less nervous i get. i have been climbing some pretty steep hills in my training and i just wanted to know what you think of the course. it dosent seem to me that there are any steep hills(maybe 2 little ones in the middle?). just wondering if i should be more scared than i am? i am more nervous about the swim than anything.
September 2nd, 2008 8:37 pm
bigdave_nv says:
nice run; gotta up my mileage