Today is, my husband, Tom’s Birthday. DD is up for a visit, and it is just one of those family kind of days. We all managed to sleep in past 8 a.m. That in itself is cause for a celebration. Since I knew that Tom wanted to get out for a bike ride with DD, we quickly presented Tom with his gifts – new cycling jersey, shorts and a helmet.
It wasn’t long after the gift giving, that he and DD were off for their bike ride. The kids and I headed to the track. BoBo and YaYa played around on the football field while I did some running on the track. The track is only a year or so old so it has plenty of bounce. I judged my thigh to be okay after a 1-mile warm up, so I tried my legs out on some speedwork.
Time / Distance(mi ) / phase
9:04 / 1.00 mile / warm up
3:38 / 0.53 mile / 800 repeat
3:23 / 0.26 mile / rest
3:43 / 0.52 mile / 800 repeat
3:13 / 0.26 mile / rest
3:50 / 0.53 mile / 800 repeat
9:42 / 0.90 mile / cool down
Now, I realize that 3 repeats isn’t all that agressive of a speed workout, but it was good enough for me. It was also about all the time the kids seemed to have the patience for. With the cool down, it totaled 4 miles.
Afterwards, we got something cool to drink and then went to the library to look up a book that Dori recommended for my little blogger (YaYa). Although we were unsuccessful in locating the book (it would have helped if I had remembered the title correctly), we picked out a few other fun books. On the way home we passed 2 cute cyclists who were looking tired and hot.
I think it’s so cute that your little one is blogging. I hope you are able to find Nova’s Ark; David Kirk, the author, also wrote the Miss Spider books. I read it to my friend’s son, when he was too young to read on his own, and on his way home he told his mom that I have great books!Good job on the running. What’s your next race?
Thanks Dori. We are going to look for this book.
wow, having just this week done my first ever 800 repeats, i can say that you were smokin’!! i had no idea what to expect. I was pleasantly surprised by the whole experience. (I was smokin’ too, but on planet jeanne.) :)
Jeanne, If I remember your post well enough your rest periods were shorter than mine. It doesn’t take that long to go around the track again. It is amazing how much easier it is to do another 800 if you get an additional minute of rest. The idea in Yassos is that if your goal marathon time is 4 hours, you run your 800 in 4:00 minutes and then have a rest of equal time. Since I am not currently training for a marathon, I figured I could try to cut both short on time a little. I tried but my last 800 was longer than I liked.