Today’s prescribed speed workout: 4 x 1 mile at marathon goal pace w/ 1 mile cool down. Can you really call that a Speed workout? And how slow does one really need to go to “recover” from 1 mile at marathon goal pace?? Well I guess all workouts have a purpose. . .
Since this week’s “speed” workout was long intervals, and with the harrier sponsored 5k on Thursday (which I am using for my tempo run), and because I am trying to learn from my mistakes of last week prior and time my runs better, I decided to do this workout on my own in Central Park’s lower loop (equalling 1.75 miles ea) on Tuesday.
Knowing that I unusually run a little faster in the park, I started the first mike thinking “pace yourself, pace yourself.” When I crossed the mile marker, I hit the lap button on my watch and looked down only to see that I had finished in 7:02. Crap . . That isn’t marathon pace at all! This continued for two more laps, each time thinking that I was slowing down only to find myself finishing in the early 7 minute range. At least I was being consistent! Finally for the fourth lap I decided that I didn’t care what pace I was running, and instead just enjoyed my run. In the end, this workout was more like half marathon pace intervals.
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