So, feeling inspired by all the great things that have occured just next to the track I started trotting around and getting fired up! It was extra inspirational since my sister, beau-frere, and Jennie were hanging out track side (yes, going on vacation with me means you get to spend some sweet, sweet time checking out the local tracks...maybe it is a good thing that I got into this whole running thing AFTER getting married!)
I was pretty excited to run, but my pacing was ALL over the place. The whole idea of going to a track for these workouts is to nail your pace and to keep it consistent. I definitely was not consistent, but getting a track workout during vacation kept a smile on my face the entire time! The workout unravelled like so (the general theme is one of excitement at the beginning of each interval followed by boredom!):
Warmup: 2.02 miles (7:09 min/mile)
Threshold (reported as cumulative miles):
1. 5:58 min
1.5: 3:01
400m recovery: 1:52 min
2.5: 5:53 min
3: 3:02 min
400m recovery: 1:53 min
4: 5:51 min
4.5: 3:04 min
400m recovery: 1:53 min
5.5: 5:55 min
6.25: 4:31 min
2 mile recovery (7:20 min/mile)
This is the graphical representation.
After the workout, we were all leaving the track when 2 other guys were walking up and starting to get ready for their workout. I said hello and they both said hello back and I kept walking. My brother-in-law asked me, "Do you know who that was?!" I said, "Nope". It turns out, it was a Great Britain tennis star, Andy Murray, who had just been eliminated from the Olympics a few days earlier. My sister told me that I should go back and run a few laps with him...I decided against it - I thought that the poor guy is probably still feeling bad from losing out at the Olympics let alone having some no-name whoop him on the track!!! LOL
Total Weekly Miles: 43.24 miles (Goal: 42 miles - goal achieved!)
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