Start time: 04/23/05, 8:00am
Location: W&OD Trail
Distance: 3 miles
Average pace: 9:20min/mile
A bunch of the people in our group wanted to have our own mini 3-mile time trial on Saturday, so that’s all I got around to doing in terms of running. (Run three miles at a comfortable pace, round up to the nearest half minute, then add one minute on and that’s your training pace.) I took the first mile waaaaay too fast thanks to trying to Randy on a subconscious level, and the other two miles were a little disastrous in comparison. If I hadn’t done that, it probably would’ve been a 9:40min/mile pace, which puts me squarely in the 11:00 group for next week. Here we go again…
But you know that you’ll get faster over the course of training. My question is that since you are a more experienced runner and your pace time is fast, will you have longer run intervals relative to walk? Instead of 3:1 or 3:2 do you go to 5:1 or even 6:1?
Yeah, for example, the 11:00 group runs at a 5:1 ratio… I think the highest group (8:30) does a 7:1.