400's and a Bobcats loss

Miles:3
Workout: 1 mile warm up, 4x400, 1 mile cool down.

Not having run since last Saturday, and not having gone more than 5 miles in 9 days, I decided to get in some 400s on the track near our house. Smith middle school is right on Tyvola near our neighborhood so I ran there and proceeded to get some turn over with some quarters.

Splits on the track were: 75, (1:30 rest); 74 (1:40): 76 (1:30); 66

The weather was very cold, and I am still not 100 percent healthy. It's been over a week where I have had a sore throat and feeling run down. One thing I am trying to do this week is good at least 8 hours of sleep a night, and so far I have. I just want to be feeling great come Sunday morning at the starting line.

This was also the first run outside in 8 days. The others, as you can see by the posts below have been on the treadmill. I have been trying to stay out of the cold weather because I've been sick, and today I can tell that it does make a difference, by me feeling lousy on the run.



Anyway: We went to the Bobcats game last night and they lost to the worst team in the NBA. You can see a post on it on my friend Josh's blog here.

naturally faster run

Miles: 6.8
Time: 46:35
Pace: 6:51

Probably a culmanation of having a time crunch, excitement of the Bobcats game, and the music and stopwatch accompanying me on my run made for a quicker pace. I decided to run the Madison Park out-and-back, and run with my blackberry pandora tunes. I was needing some motivation, and it helped. First couple of miles I was around 7:05 pace, and when I turned around at 3.4 miles, I was at 23:45. (6:59 pace). Obviously I was moving along faster than I normally do at my 7:30 standard pace, but it didn't feel bad, and I wanted to negative split coming home. I decided to keep the pace and try and close faster, but not to push myself to where I felt like I was withdrawing more than I was depositing, from a training standpoint. I ran the second half of the run ("back"), 22:50, faster than I did on the "out", and closed at 6:42 pace. The run did not feel uncomfortable, and I was happy I was able to have a quality run. I think it was just a product of training, and the legs having a good day.

Also, I'm liking the days starting to get noticably longer!



Oh yea, Bobcats (17-19) won - beat the Rockets. They've won 5 out of 6, and no one is going to the games, still.