If I were you I wouldn't focus on the two mile at all. Your mile time is your best, with your 800 not all that far behind, but 11:50 isn't in the same league as either of them.
If I were you I wouldn't focus on the two mile at all. Your mile time is your best, with your 800 not all that far behind, but 11:50 isn't in the same league as either of them.
I forgot to mention: My internet is horrible and I have LOTS of brothers and sisters, SC takes forever.
Hey jayordon if you're there just use the email, me and reject are already talking
sent it
Thanks. I've added you
Today's workout:
10x200 averaging 36 w/ 200 jog recovery (meaning flying start)
35 37 37 35 36 36 35 37 38 34
Wanted them to be controlled to get used to 4:4x pace. Goal was 35 avg. Since I was not trying to go all out I didn't get 35 avg. First 5 went ok, last 5 were a bit of a grind.
I was did the workout solo so I had nobody to push me. However there were a few sprinters stretching and doing hurdle drills on the infield so there was a slight "crowd" for adrenaline. I hadn't eaten very much that day and I was in trainers. Overall the workout was 95% effort, could have done 1-2 more at 36 if I absolutely had to. It was harder than I would've liked but since I was solo it's not really that big of a deal. The last rep felt horrible tho and I did feel kinda completely lactic but I was pushing it there.
Thoughts? I'm shooting for 4:55-7 in our meet next Thursday. Sound reasonable?
It does sound reasonable.
There's a kid on my team who used to be kind of decent, but then he had some issues; long story short he psyches himself out before every race and says, "I have to break 5:20, I have to", then he vomits halfway through and runs a 5:40.
Not saying you're doing anything like that, but be mindful of your goals. I think that you should just get to the start line, say, "Fvck it!", and not give a sh!t about your time. Sure, during the race your mind will start racing with all the different splits and whatnot, trying to figure out whether you went out too hard, but if you GO INTO the race not giving a sh!t, then everything will turn out fine.
Plus, if you have that mindset, you'll never be dissatisfied with your race. Whenever you doubt your progression, you inadvertently start to become apathetic. Apathy is the worst enemy of a distance runner.
Excellent words. Thank you.
I do realize things will never go according to plan on race day and I usually do race on feel, just with an end goal of getting in a range of a certain time. I am kind of a stat/math monster so it's hard not just running by feel and not how I "think" I should be at a certain point or have at a certain split or whatever, I just try to relax and go with it. It would be nice if performance could just be mapped out and we could just run the arbitrary times we want, but we can't.
Apathy is a killer for sure but I'm pretty motivated so I don't think it's a huge risk for me, at least for now. Who knows what my mindset will be even a week from now, though. Hey, by the way, are you still in high school? You sound a lot older, like you're just out of college. Thanks for following my thread btw, you've been pretty helpful
Yeah i'm still in HS. I think the HS community on letsrun is more mature than the jamin types anyways.
Another cool related thing is that after I quit running with at watch I improved a lot. Only getting splits after each lap instead of throughout the race helped my "go with the flow" mindset.
Hey Alabama, sorry I never saw this. A quick update, I ran 5:02 and 5:01 (opened in 71, ran in lane two a lot, 80 degrees out) the last two meets, I'll update again after our meet on 4/20. Goal is 4:54. After that I only have 1-2 more races. It's gonna be tight
You can also send your SC to the email I listed in the page before this if you want
It will be tight, but you can do it. I just got a 7 second PB yesterday in the 1600 without tapering, so I guess anything's possible!
By the way, I'll pass on the SC.
Nice job. In case you missed the address it's themostsavagemanontheplanet@gmail.com
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