Tempo/Recovery? Which Is it?
After my daughter and I were done with our 1.5 miles of her “Kid’s marathon” run, I decided to go out and run a faster recovery run for myself. I was partly inspired by Big Dave’s super fast run today… but the truth is, I’m not really recovered enough to got out and pound out a great tempo run.
I got out 2 miles at 8min/mile pace: 8:01 (143avg), 8:03 (151avg). But at the turn around I couldn’t keep my pace up at all, and I just got slower and slower: 9:48 (137avg), 10:46 (136avg).
But I do think it helped my legs feel a bit better to get out and run for real.
Dave’s really pulling for me to run Seattle, which I do think I can and should do… but he thinks I should shoot for a PR-ish pace, which means running solid 8min/miles… well… I don’t think I have 26.2 8min/miles in me in the next 3 weeks.
Workout:
- Type: Run
- Date: 11/12/2008
- Time: 17:00:00
- Total Time: 00:36:39.40
- Average Heart rate: 141
- Max Heart rate: 157
- Distance: 4 miles
- Average Pace: 9:09.62/mile
- Max Pace: 8:01.28/mile
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4 Comments: :
Tempo/Recovery? Which Is it?
November 13th, 2008 4:01 am
slowhand says:
LOL. You’ll probably feel better about the Marathon in a dew days. Take care.
November 13th, 2008 6:09 am
mickieblueeyes says:
Just do your best.
I’d be happy if I could get a solid 5k at 8 min. LOL
November 13th, 2008 7:37 am
bigdave_nv says:
the 14 hour effort probably takes a lot more out of you than a 6 hour effort does. listen to your body, …(but dont baby it!)
November 13th, 2008 10:30 am
xr4000 says:
it’s cool bro…….you got it! i think that dave is right. 14 hours of racing is brutal. i think you have just enough time until the race that you can pull it off.