Unchained-Van Halen
Fourth time evidently is the charm for getting on the track at Temple! after being shut out on the 10th,12th and Saturday I made my way to Greasey Field w/ the stong conviction that NOTHING official would be going on there on Easter Sunday........surely?????
Now b4 I get criticized for not being in church on Easter Sunday let me state for the record that while I pray twice a day,bless myself w/ holy water whenever I leave home and frequently light a candle at St John's catholic church in Center City on poignant anniversaries I stopped going to mass years ago and at the risk of sounding pious and holier than thou my feeling is on Sundays when I'm out running I'm trying to better myself,I always say my running is a God given talent and by running to the best of my ability I'm doing God's will so hopefully I'll be forgiven for not attending mass on Easter Sunday.
Thankfully not only was there nothing "official" going on on the track when I arrived at 11.15am but I pretty much had the track to myself I guess the "masses" were off celebrating Easter Sunday.....no pun intended!
Following my 6 lap warm up it was have at it time over 5x1,000m,last time out over 5x1,000m on March 29th it pissed out of the heavens and i had to conduct the repeats in full raingear so my splits of:3.18.5-3.26.2-3.24-.9-3.33.5-3.29.4 should be easy pickings today,prior to March 29th on Feb 1st I last did 5x1,000m repeats w/ snow covering the bottom turn between 200m/300m-600m/700m so I haven't had the best of luck this year w/ this repeat and now I was conducting them on the back of a 12 mile run the day b4.........it's always something w/ this repeat!!
#1 1,000m
1.15-1.22-38=3.15.1
A nice start and my fastest single 1,000m since July 10th 2012.....could I keep it up or had I " shot my load" on #1 already????
#2 1,000m
1.18-1.20-37=3.15.5
Clearly #1 wasn't a fluke or one off,dare I dream about 5x sub 3.15??
#3 1,000m
1.17-1.20-37=3.14.4
Oh snap! if I was dreaming then please don't wake me up just yet,this was too good to be true!!
#4 1,000m
1.20-1.24-39=3.23.0
Drat!!! fatigue and the wind picking up did me in,kneelift wasn't there on #4 like it had been on #1 through #3
#5 1,000m
1.20-1.23-36=3.19.1
The old Carl Lewis " I just want to know I left it all out there on the track" mindset saw me give everything I had over the closing 200m.
The fact I shaved 44 seconds off of my March 29th 5x1,000m repeats should be taken a large pinch of salt,it was windy and pissing down w/ rain that day but the fact was since resuming repeats in August this was my best set of 5x1,000m.
Back in August my goal was 1.20 per lap w/ a closing 200m in 40 seonds for 3.20,it's taken till now to get there but just like I said after the mile repeats that I'd like to get into 1.25 per lap territory for strarters b4 kicking on again after todays 5x1,000s I'm keen to get another crack at this repeat in two weeks time to see how much faster I can get and also conduct it before my 12 mile long run!!!!
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