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Mar 02, 2009

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Running Accomplishments:

Madison Inaugural 1/2 Marathon August 2009 2:02:48--yippee PR!

Fall Frolic 4 miler Nov 09PR 33:27 AG 4th place

Race to Wrigley 5K April 2010 PR 24:54

Short-Term Running Goals:

PR my 5k time. But maybe for now I should shoot for under 30 minutes.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Stay injury free and see where that takes me.

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I have a husband who is wonderful, three beautiful dogs, I'm a teacher, and I'm a runner. Life is good.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Mizuno Rider 12 #2 Lifetime Miles:						327.30
Mizuno Rider 12 # 3 Lifetime Miles:						384.86
Turquoise Riders Lifetime Miles:						53.25

Fri, Dec 04, 2009

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Crosstraining miles	Total Miles
4.75	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	4.75

6:40am 12 degrees with the windchill...this didn't hurt until i starting running towards the west...I really hate wind.

Intervals. I"m pretty sure my intervals were too long..and I definately went to fast on the first one b/c i had to walk during the slower time. I did a warm up then fast .25 and slow .40. I repeated this 5 times and then had a cool down.

I'll just give the pace for the .25--8.28, 10:14, 8:32, 10:47, 9:20

Should I shorten up the intervals? Would that make them more consistant? Or is consistancy not the name of the game with intervals?

Mizuno Precision Miles: 4.75

Comments

From Carolyn in Colorado on Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 11:27:08 from 24.8.167.243

There are different kinds of intervals. There are fartlek intervals, which are quite short, like maybe 30 seconds or so, and there are longer intervals. I can't tell you off the top of my head what the benefits of one or the other are. But I will say that if you're doing regular intervals, not fartlek, then .25 is not too short. If they're taking too much out of you over that distance, I suggest slowing down a bit rather than shortening the distance.

From april27 on Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 11:31:07 from 99.188.251.180

Okay good then I didn't mess up too bad! Can you tell it is my first time? LOL

From Smooth on Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 13:11:34 from 71.52.65.202

GOOD JOB! When I first learn how to do intervals...I was wondering the same thing. I read in one of my marathon books that the rest interval can be as long a time as it takes to run the fast distance. For example run 400 meter (or .25 mile) then jog or walk the amount of time it takes to run that 400 m.

Bart Yasso (editor of RW) has a cool workout calls Yasso 800s. Have you heard of it? His theory is the minutes and seconds it takes you to run the 800m (10 of them, of course you gradually build up to 10 over a training cycle) translates to the hours and minutes it will take you to run a marathon.

Here's how it works: start with a 10-20 min. warm up, then run fast for 800m at a 5-10K race pace; then recover with a jog/walk for 400m or the time it took to run that 800m; repeat 2-3 times. Next time add another repeat. Let's say it took you 4 min. to run the 800m. If you can run consistently ten 800m at or slightly below that time, it means you can run a marathon in 4 hours. Hope this help!

From Tracy on Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 14:51:51 from 209.175.177.37

I like the sound of that workout, Smooth. Very interesting.

April, everyone is right: you can do intervals a lot of different ways. I do like to have my work interval roughly the same time (not distance) as my easy interval, but if you are doing a fartlek, you just play around there.

Nice experimentation, though April!

From rattletrap on Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 16:43:22 from 24.19.93.139

You should get serious and quit fartlekin' around :)

From april27 on Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 18:13:43 from 99.188.251.180

Ooh I shall have to try that. But I think I will start off doing 400's...That first one kicked my booty. Or like Carolyn said run it slower that way atleast I can be a little consistant.

Oh and thanks for the conversion--I didn't know that 400 was .25...so I guess that was a good start out distance!

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