Start Time: 2/24/08, 8:30am
Location: Sidwell Friends High School
Distance: 1 mile & 1600m & 800m & 400m & 200m & 100m
Total Miles For February: 32
Fred had us run a “reverse ladder” where each distance was faster and faster. Uggghhhh. It was a little gratifying that four of the five of them had me finishing first, although that last one I was trying to just not throw up!
1600m: 5:59
800m: 2:46
400m: 1:09
200m: 29.92
100m: 15.64
Start Time: 2/18/08, 8:00am
Location: LAX Marriott
Distance: 8 miles
Average Pace: 8:45min/mile
Total Miles For February: 29
When I finished, a guy in the weight room looked at me and said, “Wow! You are hardcore!” Which was nice.
Start Time: 2/17/08, 8:00am
Location: LAX Marriott
Distance: 6 miles
Average Pace: 8:45min/mile
Total Miles For February: 21
Run run run run run!
Start Time: 2/9/08, 2:00pm
Location: Yulee, Florida
Distance: 7 miles
Average Pace: 8:50min/mile
Total Miles For February: 15
Running through my parents’s neighborhood—which was quite nice—and then the next neighborhood over… which was not quite nice. In fact, rather terrifying. And lots of snarling dogs. Eeeeek.
Start Time: 2/7/08, 2:00pm
Location: Marriott Courtyard, Savannah
Distance: 5 miles
Average Pace: 9:00min/mile
Total Miles For February: 8
I remember this run being really tiring and just bleah. Right after a long morning of training, yay.
Start Time: 2/2/08, 8:00am
Location: Washington-Lee High School
Distance: 1 mile & 4x800m
Total Miles For February: 3
4x800m: 3:21, 3:27, 3:22, 3:24
Start Time: 1/26/08, 8:00am
Location: McLean High School
Distance: 2 mile & 12x200m
Total Miles For January: 35.5
12x200m: 51.90, 53.95, 45.93, 49.57, 47.30, 45.78, 43.08, 43.80, 42.71, 43.50, 42.76, 41.89
Start Time: 1/26/08, 8:00am
Location: Washington-Lee High School
Distance: 1 mile & 2x200m & 4x400m
Total Miles For January: 33
2x200m: 47.82, 48.89
4x400m: 1:42, 1:39, 1:35, 1:33
Start Time: 1/16/08, 6:30pm
Location: Gunston Community Center
Distance: 8 miles
Average Pace: 8:45min/mile
It was too cold out to attack the Custis Trail again, so this time I decided to seek out a treadmill—eight miles on an 1/8th-mile indoor track meant 64 laps, and surely by the end I would be dizzy and throw up. I finally went over to Gunston, which no one seems to know exists, and used their solitary treadmill. No one else wanted to use it while I was there (in fact only two other people were even there while I was!), so hey, works for me.
Start Time: 1/12/08, 8:00am
Location: Washington-Lee High School
Distance: 1 mile & 4x100m & 200m/400m/800m/400m/200m
Saturday was another group session with Empowered & Fit. After a mile warm-up, we did four 100m runs progressively faster (forgot to time those, oops). Then we did a pyramid: 200 meters, then 400 meters, then 800 meters, then 400 meters, then 200 meters. And for each run, we were supposed to transition every quarter of the distance and get progressively faster. It was fun, if hard. It was great to have Emma there, acting as a rabbit in front of me and pushing me through the end each time. I like having someone a little faster than me there for an event like this, because it really pushes me hard. (0:45, 1:31, 3:33, 1:33, 0:37)
Start Time: 1/14/08, 6:30pm
Location: McLean High School
Distance: 2 miles & 12x200m
“Oh, don’t worry, Greg. McLean High School’s track is lit at night.”
Well, it isn’t. Argh. Still, ran my warm-up mile (9:34), then with a deep breath… started 12 200-meter repeats. Ugh. That’s four more than I’m used to, but I was able to ramp things up pretty well… ok, #11 not so much, but all in all, I was pleased. (50.15, 49.11, 43.43, 43.71, 43.15, 40.35, 40.99, 40.38, 39.45, 39.32, 41.42, 40.03) And then afterwards, amusingly, the cool-down mile? Kind of fast. (8:35) Funny how it’s all relative.