Eye on the Prize
Coming off my 5K PR from a couple of days ago, I must admit that the temptation is too take a couple of weeks and really focus on that distance and try and get that PR even lower. I really only have one more 5K scheduled for the rest of the year, and it's next weekend, so I could probably justify doing some short fast track sessions between now and then to get the pistons really firing. But, I know that would work against my longterm goal, and that has to be the focus. My 5K time right now predicts a marathon time right around 2:40, so I still have a lot of work to do to get that down to 2:36 which is what I'm shooting for. I can't really afford to get caught up too much in short-term goals. Funny that Mike's comments from a few days ago echo this mentality almost exactly. It's good to have people watching your back.
I guess it all comes back to the whole anareobic vs. aerobic workouts and how the two really don't mix. I don’t pretend to understand it, but I know that people much smarter than me say that going anaerobic too early in the training cycle isn't good. I'm not gonna argue.
I guess what I find most amazing about the race from a couple of days ago is that I took 28 seconds off of my 5K PR on nothing but mileage and a tempo runs. I've done one session of mile repeats a few weeks ago, and other than that, I never really ran anything faster than about 5:40 in a workout. Luckily, the body didn't forget to go when it had to.
Did 17 miles this morning at about the standard 7 minute pace. No real residual effects from the hard race effort on Tuesday, so that's good. For some reason, I had the Salerno Butter Cookie jingle stuck in my head for most of the run today. I don't really know why. I haven't had a Salerno Butter Cookie in a very long time, and I haven't heard the commercial in an even longer time. After singing it in my head for about an hour and a half, I started to realize that the kid in the commercial would not be getting a cookie in our house if he asked like that. No please, no thank-you. Jeez.
posted by Greg @ 9:48 AM
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great job on your pr Greg! What was that, 7-8 seconds a mile? Do you think it came from your striders? I've been doing the high mileage, tempos only also for months and am getting ready to try out my 5k in a few weeks. I'm just now adding in striders because there's no way my legs will turn over if I don't trick them. They're used to going way slower than race pace, about 45 seconds per mile. I'm hoping striders are the big equalizer. My coach from Eugene just did a 15:29 on the same diet so I'm crossing my fingers. It's great to see it worked for you, gives me hope. Congrats ! Samantha( Sam)
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