"Coach" Likhaya told me I also need to pick up the speed for short runs. Short is a relative term. Short to Likhaya is longer than a long run to me but he told me I needed to do short speed intervals to work on picking up the pace on my short runs.
This morning I woke up about 5:30, warmed up hard in the house with some moves Jodi said they have been doing in the classes she's been taking at the gym, including running in place lifting my knees as high as possible then running in place lifting my feet as high behind me as I could. Yeah, I was warmed up when I headed outside.
I did a 1/2 mile just as hard as I could go finishing in 4 minutes 20 seconds. For some reading this that isn't a "speed" run but for me I was quite pleased. Admittedly I wanted to keep it at 4 or under and maybe I could have a little later in the morning but this was my fastest 1/2 mile I know since high school and I think ever. It felt good and gives me a benchmark to build on.
Tomorrow I am leaving work early and since Likhaya let me know today that he can't make it tomorrow I will probably head up to La Luz and see how that goes. The Valles Caldera run has a lot of downhill so I think practicing on LaLuz could be a good idea. Hopefully it will be warm like they predict.
This morning I woke up about 5:30, warmed up hard in the house with some moves Jodi said they have been doing in the classes she's been taking at the gym, including running in place lifting my knees as high as possible then running in place lifting my feet as high behind me as I could. Yeah, I was warmed up when I headed outside.
I did a 1/2 mile just as hard as I could go finishing in 4 minutes 20 seconds. For some reading this that isn't a "speed" run but for me I was quite pleased. Admittedly I wanted to keep it at 4 or under and maybe I could have a little later in the morning but this was my fastest 1/2 mile I know since high school and I think ever. It felt good and gives me a benchmark to build on.
Tomorrow I am leaving work early and since Likhaya let me know today that he can't make it tomorrow I will probably head up to La Luz and see how that goes. The Valles Caldera run has a lot of downhill so I think practicing on LaLuz could be a good idea. Hopefully it will be warm like they predict.
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