Monday, April 28, 2014

Brute Force And Ignorance

Finally!!!! third time's a charm for gettting on the track at temple on a Saturday,asides from the obvious delight at this was the utter relife that I wouldn't even have to consider let alone attempt a 12 miler on Saturday b4 returning to Geasey Field on Sunday for 8x300x200x300m repeats.....just the thought of that makes my legs ache!!!!
While the masses were over at Franklin Field for the final day of Penn Relays I headed to Geasey Field hoping to complete my second set of 8x300x200x300m repeats,having seen inprovements on my 4x1 mile,5x1,000m and 6x600m repeats I was hoping to improve on Apr 5th splits of:
49.3-33.3-52.4
52.1-33.7-51.2
52.7-34.7-52.5
51.5-34.2-53.4
52.8-34.4-52.8
53.3-34.5-52.9
53.7-34.6-53.9
53.2-33.5-54.2

Conditions were almost ideal,sunny,62 degrees but w/ some wind,that track always seems to attract wind but hopefully this is where my three runs a week along the Schuylkill Banks and Kelly Dr help me out at there almost always  seems to be a wind coming off the Schuylkill river.
Mile warm up taken care of it was have at it time..........
51.6-32.3-50.9
52.4-32.7-50.9
50.8-32.8-51.4
51.9-33.6-52.1
52.3-34.3-53.1
53.2-33.6-52.6
52.4-33.5-52.4
52.3-33.9-51.8

Last time out I was kinda bummed out by finishing on a 54.2 closing 300m,today I only had two 53's,last time out I logged five 34 second 200s,today I only had 1.
This was clearly another improvement and confirms my training is heading in the right direction w/ just over 12 weeks till Nationals but I can't afford to take my foot off the gas period the leading times this year for M50 outdoor 800m and 1,500m are 2.03.33 and 4.26.66 so there's clearly more work to be done between now and July13th but I'm up for the challenge trust me.

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