THE FAIRHAVEN FROSTY

The farihaven frosty is this weekend. This is the race where I will be shooting for my sub 17. I say this because I have been training fairly good so I want to through in a all out effort and see where I am at with my training. I have been doing a lot of tempo like runs so it has gotten me dialed into a fast pace even when I am not at 100%. On Wednesday I hope to do some 800s up at the western track. Hopefully at 5k race pace. Other then that I want to continue to do what I am doing.

20:05

The race on the morning of November 24, 2011 was a good one. It started at a little after 9 am, the race was  three laps around Cornwall or about 3.6 miles. As the voice command start sounds I jump to the lead. But not for long, all of the local studs overtake me within 100 yards. I try to hang onto them. As we approach the first lap I look at my watch. it is in 6:16. pretty fast. The second lap is way slower as my two lap time is in 13:20. I start to get my mojo back by popping a 6:45 for my last lap and finishing in 20:05. After the race I am thinking to myself, i have just hit another level. by the way that is equivalent to a 17:00 5k.

6x800

Yes the assigned workout was 6x800. I start out at a 2:50 and then slowly work my down during the course of the workout.  My second 800 is a little bit faster at 2:39, but today I am felling well so I want take a little more off of that. The third one is more of what I wanted. I hit it at exactly 2:30. My fourth also feels just as good as I continue a good tempo at 2:32. I slow down to a tempo pace on the last two. I run 2:45 and 2:50 for them. I felt that I am finally finding my groove again. That I can pump out these speed workouts’s like this. I am grateful.