Today I was busy from the time I woke up to the time I should
have been going to bed. I'd already put off Tuesday's track workout, so I had
to figure out how to fit it in today. I was not going to have the luxury of
using a track and my hubby wasn't going to be home in time to allow me to go to
one. So, my creative juices started flowing. I measured the distance around the
pasture and figured I'd have to run around it an absurd amount of times to get
all my sprint repeats done. Not going to happen.
Next option took me to the hardware store. I came home with
colored duct tape (I didn't know there was such a thing) and marking paint. I
put Fats in the stroller and down the road we went marking distances along the
road so I could do my sprints between markers.
It was a cooler day
and a storm was moving in. I had nervous, anxious energy from dropping my son
off for his first day of Kindergarten. I had a crazy amount of stress and
frustration ready to explode out of me from situations that arose the day before. All of this fueled
me through my run.
My training plan with
splits:
800 meter warm-up
400 meter sprints (5x)
progressively getting faster and with 45 second rest between laps.
3-4 minute rest
400 meter sprints (5x
same as above)
800 meter cool down
As I started my warm-up, it started raining and blowing. It
was raining so hard I could barely see where I was going so I ran in the house
and put on my visor. I was already sopping wet and needed to reference the
splits I wrote on a sticky note. So, off I went to the house again and put the sticky
note in a plastic baggie. Then, I put the baggie in our mailbox so it wouldn't
blow away. Genius!
I ran 3.5 miles in 34:47 with an average pace of 9:55,
including a mile of warm-up and cool down!
I ran off all the tension in my
body and had a finish time to prove it! I've never run that fast in my life. I felt better when I was done before I started.
Time will tell if it ever happens again.
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