This afternoon’s workout was fabulous. I was scheduled to run 400 meter repeats @ 10.5 mph with 3 minutes of rest. My goal was to run eight of them, but when I did this workout for the first time two weeks ago I only finished six. On that day I was gassed after the very first one.
Today was completely different and I felt comfortable with the speed. I motored right on through the eight I had planned, then did two more. I even bumped it up to 11 mph and ran 500 meters on the last one. It was a huge improvement in a very short time.
My goal for the masters pentathlon is to run 1000 meters at an 11.5mph pace. While I’m still a long ways from being in the kind of shape I was six months ago, this has given me some hope that regaining that fitness level may not take quite as long as I had thought.
I haven’t quite figured out which direction to push myself on these running workouts. There are a lot of options; I can stay with the eight 400s and either run them faster or shorten the rest interval. I can keep the speed and rest intervals the same and lengthen the distance I run. Or I can keep everything the same and just increase the number of repeats.
I am leaning towards increasing the volume before I start speeding up too much. Patience isn’t my strongest trait, but in this case I think that may be the way to go. The stronger the base, the easier it will be to start pushing on the throttle….I HOPE!
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