Kazrak
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 23, 2018
Week 7 update.
Son and I skipped Wednesday due to another 8am appointment, but the Monday and Friday runs went very well. We went up to week 3 (90s/90s/3m/3m x2), aiming for a 12:30 pace, and we ended up doing a bit better than that. I'd been worried that the 3m runs would be too long, but he kept to them well. On Friday, at the end of the 3m walk, we were still (barely) faster than a 16:00 pace - so, theoretically, if he could keep up that cycle the whole race, he'd stay ahead of the sweepers. Planning to repeat this week with the intent to move up to week 4 the following week.
Wife tried a run on Tuesday and her knees said 'lol no'. So she took Thursday off to let them recover more, and went back to running on dirt on Saturday. She looped the park a few times until her knees started to warn her, and called it there.
I felt really good starting up this morning, and decided to push the pace for a sub-12:00 run. Dropped to a walk at about 1.3 miles for a bit under 0.1 miles, and ran the rest, trying to keep my pace faster than 12:00 whenever I was running.
3.1 miles, 36:37, pace 11:48. Splits were 11:27, 12:23, and 11:41, with a 10:59 pace for the last tenth.
I'm very, very pleased with this. I think my goal for next week is to slow down the pace and push for more distance - might loop the college twice, which would get me close to a 5 mile run.
Son and I skipped Wednesday due to another 8am appointment, but the Monday and Friday runs went very well. We went up to week 3 (90s/90s/3m/3m x2), aiming for a 12:30 pace, and we ended up doing a bit better than that. I'd been worried that the 3m runs would be too long, but he kept to them well. On Friday, at the end of the 3m walk, we were still (barely) faster than a 16:00 pace - so, theoretically, if he could keep up that cycle the whole race, he'd stay ahead of the sweepers. Planning to repeat this week with the intent to move up to week 4 the following week.
Wife tried a run on Tuesday and her knees said 'lol no'. So she took Thursday off to let them recover more, and went back to running on dirt on Saturday. She looped the park a few times until her knees started to warn her, and called it there.
I felt really good starting up this morning, and decided to push the pace for a sub-12:00 run. Dropped to a walk at about 1.3 miles for a bit under 0.1 miles, and ran the rest, trying to keep my pace faster than 12:00 whenever I was running.
3.1 miles, 36:37, pace 11:48. Splits were 11:27, 12:23, and 11:41, with a 10:59 pace for the last tenth.
I'm very, very pleased with this. I think my goal for next week is to slow down the pace and push for more distance - might loop the college twice, which would get me close to a 5 mile run.