Week of 11/11-11/17
Sun: 3 miles easy
Mon: 1 mile warm/cool, 5x4 minutes (1000, 1000, 1050, 1100, 1150) pace of (6:26x2, 6:07, 5:51. 5:35)
Tue: 4 miles easy (8:00)
Wed: 1 mile warm/cool+ 4x150m progressions, 9x400m w/1 min rest (78, 75, 74, 74, 74, 75, 74, 75, 74)
Thu: 3 miles easy (8:00)
Fri: 1 mile warm/cool, 8x800 tempo on mildly hilly area w/2 min rest (3:13, 3:05, 3:05, 3:07, 3:08, 3:10, 3:15, 3:10)
Sat: 6 miles slow (8:15)
Total: 28.5
Interesting week, we have begun weightlifting again on Mondays and Wednesdays in the mornings which definitely caused soreness before the running workouts even began.
I asked my coach why we are doing this much intensity so early and he told me is it because we are "placing greater emphasis on indoor this year than usual." I may just ask if I can forego the indoor season in favor of building a base. I'm more concerned that this will lead to a lot of injuries later on for the team.
Wednesday's track workout seemed promising as to my mile shape. Sub-5 finally? Friday's workout was pretty difficult and I think was a bit longer than 800m.
Seriously???- yyeah I am confused as well at the number of workouts per week at this point in time and will likely just drop my sunday sessions in favor of a short easy run until later on.
Any advice on how to approach my coach about foregoing indoor in favor of base building? I want to get better but at the same time I don't want to be kicked off the team for not doing designated workouts (and I dont want to just go out and look like i'm slacking in workouts with the team)