66 days to go: Back on Track

So after, I don't know so many weeks I lost count, of not going to the weekly track workout, I made it back last night! And it was good.

Broken up in little segments, it's not so bad and before you know it you've run 3 miles without noticing.

First we warmed up on the outer ring above the actual track, by going around twice. Then stretched.

Then ran 400m or one lap at what we thought was our "5K pace" or how fast we would be comfortble running 3.1 miles on race day. It was timed and we all failed but running TOO FAST. The lesson was to learn what your body feels like when running too fast.

So, the next exercise was running 1600m at our marathon pace...so much s-l-o-w-e-r. At every lap we were given our times so we knew what pace we were running.

To reinforce the whole enphasis on how your body feels and not what your watch says, we were asked to run 1000m or 2.5 laps at again our marathon pace. We were right on.

The last 600m was again at our 5K pace followed by a cool down of 800m at a slow jog and stretches.

Lesson learned: We should be able to feel if we are going the right pace and if we are going too fast on race day, we MUST slow down or we will regret it at the end. Must. slow. down.