This summer I would like to break 2:00 for the 800m run. Having only run the event a handful of times, ever, I believe my personal best is 2:03.1. I know I ran a few 4x800 splits faster than that but I don't know how fast. Those times were all from high school. I may have been able to run slightly faster in college but with less races, there was less time to expiriment with an event that I am not overly good at. In addition, due to the volume of my overall running and lack of anything truly fast, I don't know if I would have gone much faster at all.
You may be thinking, why would he want to do this? My reasons mostly come back to time and motivation. In my mind, 6 x 150m, no matter how fast, is mentally much easier than 10 x 1k, especially alone. Clearly it will also consume much less time. Another reason I want to do this is that I was always envious of the guys with the natural leg speed that I lacked. Plus, everybody knows that going fast is fun.
For now, I am just going to keep running as I have been until my April 27th 50k. After that I will lightly jog for awhile and focus on recovering from that race and getting mentally ready to tackle this new type of training. I haven't decided on an actual course of training yet, I am still doing my homework. It will probably be a little higher mileage than most 800 training plans because I still want to be successful at trail races this summer and the SDSU Classic 8k in the fall. I think for awhile I will plan to do weeks that include hills, fartlek, and a long run with strides after most easy runs. I am also going to focus on the whole body with lots of cross training in the form of bouldering and mountain biking.
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Friday, April 12, 2013
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
April 8th-14th Training Recap- Getting Back on The Horse
April 8th- Didn't run as it was a travel day. Danielle and I ventured West to do research for her internship project.
April 9th- Got in 4 miles. The sinus headache is really the only thing left over from last week's illness but it is limiting. It just increases the longer I run.
April 10th- Didn't run, no time!
April 11th- Got in a solid 6 with Alex. It was easily under 7 minutes per mile which is fairly decent for us at this altitude. We usually like to run pretty slow.
April 12th- Ran 6 miles after work at a decent pace. Did 2 strides after. Wanted to do 4 but I was just really not used to anything fast so those were hard enough. I need to do more of those!
April 13th- Ran 4 miles in the morning and felt sluggish and tired.
April 14th- Was extremely pleased today. Danielle dropped Alex and I off in the country so we could have a crosswind run instead of into the wind loop (no good roads to run with the wind). We took off and it got faster and faster. I figured it would be an unsustainable pace for that distance since I've had a pathetic past few weeks of running but I kept it up and felt good doing it. We averaged about 6:32 for 13 miles.
33 miles total for the week, not enough considering I will be running 31+ in one run in 13 days. Oh well, I'm excited!
April 9th- Got in 4 miles. The sinus headache is really the only thing left over from last week's illness but it is limiting. It just increases the longer I run.
April 10th- Didn't run, no time!
April 11th- Got in a solid 6 with Alex. It was easily under 7 minutes per mile which is fairly decent for us at this altitude. We usually like to run pretty slow.
April 12th- Ran 6 miles after work at a decent pace. Did 2 strides after. Wanted to do 4 but I was just really not used to anything fast so those were hard enough. I need to do more of those!
April 13th- Ran 4 miles in the morning and felt sluggish and tired.
April 14th- Was extremely pleased today. Danielle dropped Alex and I off in the country so we could have a crosswind run instead of into the wind loop (no good roads to run with the wind). We took off and it got faster and faster. I figured it would be an unsustainable pace for that distance since I've had a pathetic past few weeks of running but I kept it up and felt good doing it. We averaged about 6:32 for 13 miles.
33 miles total for the week, not enough considering I will be running 31+ in one run in 13 days. Oh well, I'm excited!