The BoormanBlog

Today was my first ever speed work session. I guess it is also called “interval training”. Today’s workout consisted of the following.

1) Ran at a 10K pace (not easy since I had never run a 10K before)
2) Run for 800 meters (I hate the metric system. Call it 1/2 mile)
3) Walk/jog for 90 seconds (I chose to walk )
4) Do this set 8 times.

Boy, that was a workout. I was wheezing like I was back in February training for a measly 5K. Thankfully, I’ve made progress since then, or I wouldn’t have been able to do this workout.

All told, I covered 4.x miles in XX minutes, including 7 walking breaks of..oh..let’s say..95 seconds each. Not too shabby.

Admittedly, I held back a little, which I assume one would do in a 10K. After all, it’s not a sprint. My running schedule actually calls for doing the long runs on Saturday. Since I did mine on Sunday, I only had one
light cross training day between my long run (my longest run since October) and today’s speed workout instead of two. That may have affected my performance this morning.

At any rate, I’m glad to have worked in some of the finer points of training into my running at least once in my life

I’ll stick with the speed work as long as I can. I’m told it also helps you on longer endurance runs.

Stay tuned.

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