Monday, July 12, 2010

Know Your History

In running,as in life,left to my own devices I can be my own worst enemy so rather than go hog wild in my final week of training for Nationals I went back to my running log from my last Outdoor Nationals in Spokane in 08 to see what I did.
What I did two years ago was cut my repeats down and even though two years ago I was focusing solely on the 800m/1,500m where as this time around I'm going for the 5,000m,800m,1,500m treble that seemed the way to go so tonite I elected to do 3x1mile repeats.

Conditions were overcast when I arrived at Temple around 4.15pm,following a mile warm up and stretches it was go time.
#1 mile,1.14,1.16,1.16,1.12-4.58.3.Not bad if I say so myself,slowly but surely the sub 5s are starting to work their way back into my mile repeats.
#2 mile,1.16,1.19,1.17,68-5.00.2.Take away that 1.19 on the second lap and we'd be looking at back to back sub 5s,5 flat doesn't exactly suck though
#3 mile,1.16,1.17,1.18,68-4.59.1.And the first thought going through my mind at the end was"could I've gotten 4 at sub 5?"

There will be time a plenty post Nationals to work on that,for tonite I was pleased w/ not only the effort but the consistency,my slowest split was a 1.19 which cost me all three at sub 5 by a second,I know picky,picky,picky!!!
Hurrah,the schedule for Nationals has finally been posted,I'll talk about that tomorrow.

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