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Need a fast half for late fall. Then I need to actually train for it.
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Meeting with the speed group tonight but no speed, just a group ez run together to get rid of the butterflies before the big days this weekend. Also time to go pick up the race kit. Marathon in 3 days. Yahoo. Time to get ready to rock and roll Tall
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At least, this is what the paces were if indeed that is a 440 yard track. I still don’t know for sure. The Garmin was reading this distance as about .45 mile, and so giving me paces around 7:50-ish (last one at 7:26). I know, I know, don’t trust a Garmin over a track, but this is an old, unmarked, cinder track around a middle school football field, and I thought Garmin supposedly gives you a faster, not slower, time than real pace. I’d like to find some regulation, marked track to run on, to see if I am actually running this fast. (I don’t really believe it.) quote> These are very good times no matter what the rest interval is. You did not say. But if I were you I would be very curious about the distance, even though it is probably correct. This weekend if you get some free time, perhaps a little tour of the local schools in your area to find a marked track that is open to you during the week would be a useful thing to do. One thing you should also know is that you lose up to about 20 seconds per mile, or about ten seconds per 800 running on cinder as opposed to running on the tacky surface of an all weather or asphalt track, unless of course you are wearing spikes and I am certain you are not doing that. (Warning: Do not go out and buy spikes!) So this would mean you would be doing this workout even faster on a better surface. There is also some learning here for you about why you go to the track in the first place. Because everything is measured precisely, a track workout allows you to see in very short distances what kind of speed you really have. For years you have been lamenting that you have no speed, and I always felt this was groundless. You had not done track work before, so you had no way of knowing if you had speed or if you hadn't. You cannot tell if you have speed by running a fiveK or a marathon, because that is mostly about conditioning. To determine what kind of leg speed you have, you have to time yourself over shorter distances and this is a fairly new experience for you. You are certainly doing well at it. Spareribs