Running streak: runner dork

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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

"Recovery run," legs were pretty tight from previous day's hills etc. Felt like I was running much faster than this, but perhaps I was affected by the early morningness of the run....better get used to that though, or get a lot tougher.

A very small volume of interval work today -- I call this work out the "Terrible 2's." I do slow warm up jogging for about 10 minutes and then go hard for 2 minutes followed by easy for two minutes and repeat etc. Today, as I am just starting to try to run with any speed to speak of, I decided I would do 5 terrible two's. They were hard as I expected, but not too horrible. I was probably too conservative with them, which I didn't feel bad about since it was my first time doing them in years. Here's how they played out from a distance covered perspective:

Adding the warm up and short cool down results in the overall mileage. The interval figures (or "Terrible 2's") equate to roughly 6 minute per mile pace during the hard two minutes and 9 minutes per mile during the easier two minutes -- per my Garmin 305 watch there was some fluctuation in pace, but at such short distance/duration those were not enough to have much affect on the distances covered as you can deduce from reviewing figures above. I will need to greatly increase my speed during the hard minutes and ideally also during the easy minutes I guess, but we'll have to see how that goes after monitoring perhaps monthly or so.
Yes, I should have run hills this morning instead, but I piddled around for too long after waking up and as a result only had time to do the above, which I've wanted to be able to convince myself to do for a while, so I guess it is better than nothing...and extended the streak, of course.

Nearing what I consider irrefutably the half year mark...technically I guess 183 days exceeds half of 365 days, but as I tend to think in terms of months, I have been thinking that I can't really consider it 6 months until the streak reaches 186 days, on the impossible chance that the six consecutive months are all 31 day months...yeah, running every morning makes you think in weird ways. Anyway, getting there. This was just an easy run out and then a negative split return -- hmmm...runner speak, have to try to nip that in the bud again.

Feeling better today though still a bit congested -- when hearing that my teeth hurt yesterday a friend diagnosed that I may have a sinus infection, since that moment it has seemed as such. That stated, I did feel much better today and had no difficulty extending "The Streak" today. (Unassociated but noteworthy, Finn slept in his own room for the first time last night, which may be another reason why I feel better today. Somewhat associated, I believe my new shoes, ordered on-line, a first for me, should arrive today...man, I think that sentence just confirmed that I'm leaning towards runner dork tendancies....have to keep an eye on that to see how it plays out)