Let's get this out there now, I was planning on running today anyway, but it was looking like one of those days. I got into work and noticed that I had two meetings scheduled at 11AM and 1PM. That left only a hour for lunch. Since I have been running at lunch then eating it usually take about that long to run (including changing) and grab/warm up lunch. No way was I going to get that done this morning in a single hour with book ended meetings. So I sat at my desk, hemming and hawing over whether to go out and run at 9 or 10 and have it our of the way. Finally, at 9:30 I decided to just go get it done so I could focus for my meetings.
I went down to the river and changed as I always do armed with the knowledge that I wanted to get in 4 miles. What I really wanted was to get the miles done in a quick manner so I could be back at my desk in plenty of time for that first meeting. I was actually debating whether or not I was going to do the 4 or just do 3 and head back. I decided I should just see how I felt, especially since I ran 3.6 yesterday, which was really more than I had planned on doing.
This internal debate went on while I changed, and through the first half mile of the run, where upon, I decided I would do 4 if I felt good after two. I went north along the path for the first half mile turned around and came back to the start for the first full mile, so if I just went the next mile I could decide that was enough and come back with three under my belt. But something funny happened, I hit the first mile at exactly 8 minutes. So I decided to run the full 4 and try to push this into a tempo run.
Great decision in that arena. The second mile came in at 7:50, the third at 7:40, and the fourth at 7:30, overall pace for the 4 miles was 7:47. It was great, negative splits for all four miles, plus I was only away from the desk for about 45 minutes. I was very pleased that I went and did the run this morning as opposed to waiting until tonight and trying to cram it in around dinner and kids and whatnot.
The repercussions of doing the tempo run today is that I probably cut the track workout from the schedule, unless I do it tomorrow, but I don't typically like to do speed two days in a row and will probably just do an easy three tomorrow.
Remember to have fun out there you guys.
I went down to the river and changed as I always do armed with the knowledge that I wanted to get in 4 miles. What I really wanted was to get the miles done in a quick manner so I could be back at my desk in plenty of time for that first meeting. I was actually debating whether or not I was going to do the 4 or just do 3 and head back. I decided I should just see how I felt, especially since I ran 3.6 yesterday, which was really more than I had planned on doing.
This internal debate went on while I changed, and through the first half mile of the run, where upon, I decided I would do 4 if I felt good after two. I went north along the path for the first half mile turned around and came back to the start for the first full mile, so if I just went the next mile I could decide that was enough and come back with three under my belt. But something funny happened, I hit the first mile at exactly 8 minutes. So I decided to run the full 4 and try to push this into a tempo run.
Great decision in that arena. The second mile came in at 7:50, the third at 7:40, and the fourth at 7:30, overall pace for the 4 miles was 7:47. It was great, negative splits for all four miles, plus I was only away from the desk for about 45 minutes. I was very pleased that I went and did the run this morning as opposed to waiting until tonight and trying to cram it in around dinner and kids and whatnot.
The repercussions of doing the tempo run today is that I probably cut the track workout from the schedule, unless I do it tomorrow, but I don't typically like to do speed two days in a row and will probably just do an easy three tomorrow.
Remember to have fun out there you guys.
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