Thursday 111509 10 miles

I haven't a clue as to what the heck that run was but it was a mess.  Well, I know what happened actually, it is that I just did not react to what it became in an appropriate fashion.  I started with notion that I'd do 5 x 4 minutes at 0.5% grade on the treadmill at 5k pace, with two minutes rest.  After a 2 mile warm up, I jumped into the first and rolled with.  It did not feel great, but I figured that was part of breaking into the workout.  But when I started the second, I knew it was just going to be a mess.  So I backed off.  "Okay, let's make this a progression run."  But then that wasn't working out.  So it became a sort of fartlek run I guess.  Fartlek is a word for I don't really know what the hell I am going to do (okay, it is supposedly Sweedish for "speed play" but my translation sounds cooler)  So it was fast and slow and all over the place.  I kept screwing around with the mill speeds.  Then of course it kept trying to slow down after an hour (the last three minutes) and I kept trying speed it up. 

 

Frankly, my head was a mess today and not ready to focus on a workout and it showed.  What I should have done was just let it go and run easy but instead I ran "in the middle."  A bit up, a bit down.  At this point in all of it, not a biggie ... but not a good habit to get into.  10 miles.  63 minutes.  In some regards, it is kind of nice that I can have a run like this that is a good effort, but not too taxing ... but I want to be careful not to run in this "not too hard, not too easy" zone too much.