Wednesday, December 20, 2006

5.26mi, 43:49, 19 DEC 06, Fort Leavenworth KS

Bear McCreary, "The Shape of Things To Come"

WX at 1600: 39.9 (4.4) DP 18.0 (-7.8) BP 30.37 (1028) E 13 overcast RH 41%

Odometer 2: 271.2mi

Z3 high-4.

I thought I was going to do some light wogging. What I didn't count on was the length of the loop around the airfield here at Fort Leavenworth. When I checked relative time based on when I thought I was going to get back (I was on a time crunch as the Princess was in gymnastics class and I definitely did not want to stand her up at the end of class waiting for a ride), this run turned from "light wogging" (which the first mile, which wasn't, but admittedly, almost all downhill) to "holyfuckingshit I need to get back pronto!" I don't consider this to be race pace by any stretch - and I was overdressed (if relative level of sweat after the run is any indicator) for it, but for relative effort, I thought it was pretty good. I do need to start sharpening based on an expected race pace of under 8:00/mi for any half-marathon or shorter. Maybe that'll come with speedwork later.

It did mark probably the fastest road running I've done in a while based on relative speed - the 3.82 loop is mostly flat, but the 0.28 that follows it is a brutal uphill (which I normally take at around 13-minute/mi pace or so based on relative effort).

I made it back, but I didn't realize how fast I was really going until I computed splits against distances.

So much for light work, but at least I ran today, which is a hell of a lot more than I can say for yesterday.

Tomorrow needs to be an easy recovery run of about four or so.

Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
0.98 07:46 07:46 07:56 07:56 0.98
3.82 39:40 31:54 08:21 08:16 4.80
0.28 42:22 02:42 09:39 08:20 5.08
0.18 43:49 01:27 08:03 08:20 5.26

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