TRACKSTAR....

Well, that would be a slight over exaggeration. Last night was my first endeavour into track running. Someone from my TNT team suggested we get together at this high school from some speed work. I'm always up for speed work and group running so I jumped at the chance. First things first, actually running on a track is not as bad as I thought it was going to be. I envisioned my left knee hurting from the continual circles, but that never happened. I can see how tracks can lend themselves to speed work, but any type of sustained pace running would get old real fast! I think I would rather run on a treadmill, but it might be a toss up.
The workout itself was kind of a mosh pit of sorts. One warm up lap, then we did two laps of sprinting on the straights and recovery on the curves. Then a few laps at tempo followed by 1 fast lap. Then a few slower laps, then another fast. Everyone decided to call it a night, but I wanted to get 1 more mile in so I tried to run laps a bit faster than marathon pace, but at the same time maintain it. 9:14...9:13...9:14...9:02. I was very happy to see I am able to maintain pace without too much concentration. Total miles 4 @ 9 minute pace average. All in all it wasn't too bad.

Track star??? The track star was this little girl, maybe 7 out there training. She said she was going to do 8 laps. Her mother, who was very pregnant and 2 of her sisters were there as well, but not running. On the back of her shirt.....

FUNNER TO BE A RUNNER!!

I am going to think of that and her when I am at mile 22 come December.

Thanks for visiting.
R.P.D.