My goal – 2:18:59 or under
Current PR – 2:30:03
Current Week’s Mileage Goal – 65 miles
Next Race – 2 mile on Saturday, December 18, 2010 @ University of Chicago (Ted Haydon Holiday Classic) in Chicago , IL
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - 6 miles @ 6:30 mile pace. Ran this run @ Harper College with Pablo Ramirez. This was a good run, but we had to run around the ice and snow and few times on the Palatine streets which can make your overall running time skewed, because your running slowing on the ice and then fast again on the roads. Our pace overall running on the streets was right around 6:30, but our overall time was 40:20 which projects out to 6:38-6:39 mile pace.
Thursday, December 16, 2010 -
AM - 4 miles @ 6:15 mile pace (25:00). I ran this inside on the treadmill in 24:51 which is 6:13 mile pace.
PM - 2 mile warm up @ 12:39 (6:20 mile pace).
10 x 300m @ 49.5 seconds (66 second 400m pace) w/ 200m jog starting every 1:57
300m #1 - 49.7
300m #2 - 49.5
300m #3 - 49.6
300m #4 - 49.7
300m #5 - 50.0
300m #6 - 49.6
300m #7 - 49.6
300m #8 - 49.6
300m #9 - 49.5
300m #10 - 48.7
2 mile cool down @ 14:35 (7:17 mile pace)
Total miles for the day = 11
We were able to run this workout at University of Chicago's indoor track. This was great since this is where my two mile race will be on Saturday. It allowed me to run a full workout on the track, get used to warming up and cooling down, and to get know the campus and neighborhood outside to be comfortable with my surroundings. Timing little things like knowing where the bathrooms and water fountains are help so focus can just be put on the race itself.
Now this workout was good, it felt good going fast and I was pretty much hitting the times. I was confident because I also took less rest time than I was given. So, maybe if I took a little more rest I would have been a couple of tenths under the 49.5 goal time consistently. I definitely could use at least one training partner for these fast workouts, but until that happens I will just keep giving it my all.
My goal time for Saturday's two mile will be 9:28 (4:44/mile). Wish me luck!
Eric Wallor
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