Running into daylight savings time - 11/01-11/7/09

[OakLeaf]

I did 6.25 yesterday, just to get out and run. Thought about doing mile repeats and decided it's a little early to start back up on the speedwork. Next week. It definitely works on my head a bit, to know I can run 9:12 (and likely faster) for 13 miles in a flat race, then come home to the hills and non-tapered legs and the tail end of recovery, and be running 10:30's for half the distance.

Now here's the interesting thing though. Using Jeff Galloway's pace predictor - just entering my 5K PR and reverse-engineering from there, not actually doing a mile TT - my half marathon time and 5K PR correlated pretty closely. And according to that, my long run pace should be 12:00. In the flats, I'm assuming, and probably adding another :30 for the kind of terrain I have around here. Which, what I've been doing in the hills has been around 10:45 for the most part, give or take :15 on either side.

So... once again, mileage building is going to be about learning to run even more slowly than I already had to learn to run so far.



V. and Chile, so sorry you're sidelined. Chile, enjoy the bike - Veronica, try to hang in there in the pool.

- Oak, who still doesn't even want to LOOK at a pool, 33 years after the ACL injury that meant swimming was the only cardio I could do for three months...