This week's stats:
- 75 Miles
- 12M with 3 x 2000m in 7:02, 6:45, 6:40 (with laps @ 85/80), 800m in 2:40
- 12M MLR
- 12M with 2.13M tempo in 541/540/:44, 3 x (3x300) w/ 100 jog within set and 500m jog b/t sets. Paces were 53-54s
- 2 climbing sessions
- 2 lift sessions
Sometimes your workout doesn't go the way you want it to, and it's bad. Other times it goes off plan, but it's completely good.
Both of these things happened to me this week. For the 2K repeats on the track, it was complete hell. This was definitely the sort of workout where I needed a slew of people to pull me along. It just so happened that most of my buddies, including myself, had an off day, so we were all mostly solo. This made it very tough for me to actually get faster on every lap, as I was supposed to, so I cut the workout short.
For my secondary workout on Saturday, I was supposed to run 3 sets of 3 x 300m. I ran into the Strava Track Club girls, who were doing a 4 mile tempo. I decided to do 2 miles of the tempo before doing the 300m repeats. Ironically enough, running 540 pace for 2 miles warmed me up for the 300s so they felt pretty great. It was nice to end the week on a positive note. I've definitely realized that discovering my speed after years of marathon training hasn't been nearly as bad as I had anticipated.