Posted on Apr 16, 2008 under Trail |
Thursday, January 3, 2002
Workout: 3 Miles Easy/Recovery to Camino
Time: Pretty Good (14 Minutes up) Weather: Sunny/Hot
Today was supposed to be an easy or recovery run on the trail after running intervals from yesterday. However, I guess because he didn’t run yesterday, Andrew decided to go harder. Coming up, at Live Oak, he was running pretty hard. Ha, as usual decided to stay with him. I decided to keep up, since I had a goal of not letting Ha beat me. Raymond also came along to keep things fun. His first day coming back to running and he’s keeping up with us, smiling to the person next to him trying to race. The person who came up first to Camino was Pat, who knew. Coming back, Fernando said we “should” stick together coming back. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on Apr 08, 2008 under Training |
Max VO2 is how much oxygen you use when exercising or running. Increasing your max VO2 lets you to run faster and longer at the same level of effort. This next workout was our first intervals for the training season, but since they were the first ones, we started off ‘easy’.
Wednesday, January 2, 2002
Work-out: 2 Perimeter warm-up, 4 1200 meter intervals @ 6 Min/Mile Pace with 3 Min recovery
Time: 4:30 on all 4, 69 second last lap, Weather: Sunny, little warm
The Workout – Running Intervals
On the warm-up run, I felt pretty good and I finished first and still felt good to have a great workout. I guess when the coaches told us what the workout was, I felt kind of relieved because it wasn’t as hard as I expected. Running the first 1200 meters of the workout, I felt alright but by the end of it I felt kind of tired (which is expected I suppose). I was happy that we hit the mark for the first interval run, but I didn’t like the way everyone was saying how easy it was and how good they felt. If it is easy, just keep it up, no need to tell everybody how great you feel. We finished running another two 1200 meters, feeling the same thing. However, after the third one, Frank asked the coach if we could do the first two laps normal and all out the last lap of the run. Even though I usually do have a kick at the end of runs and races, I was kind of tired and didn’t really want to. He said that I would beat him anyways, but I was tired and didn’t want to go all out. Well we did the first two laps of the interval at 3 minutes and went all out for the last lap of the interval run. On the final lap, Frank took the lead and I was right behind him. But at about 150/100 meter mark, I took off. The main reason why was because I heard the Coach yelling and cheering for me first and then at Frank when I passed him. I finished dying of course, but the last lap of that interval was about 69 seconds. Overall I guess this workout was pretty good and successful. Read the rest of this entry »
