I was out on the track last spring and was going to do some mile repeats. Nothing big, like 4 x mile in 5 flat-ish. Well when I went through the mile I felt so good I just kept going... And when I hit 2 miles in 9:52 I just kept going. Yeah I know, Forest Gump right? Well the next 3 laps hurt bad but I held on enough to drop a sub 70 last lap and end up running a 15:12 for 5k.
Anyone else have a great workout where you just "kept going?"
Last October my xc team mates and me were scheduled to do 12x 300m hill climbs with jog recoveries down. Felt strong so carried on to finish 20 fast.
Next morning 6am steady 5m run was tough and painful but still carried it through and no injuries followed!
I once did a long run on the Boston Marathon course in which I intended to just run the hills from 16 to 21 hard. But the people I was running with started off briskly and picked up the pace. We started from Hopkinton. By the time we hit the hills we had gone so fast we had dropped most of the pack. I felt great and hammered up the hills. When we got to Washington Square (where we were suppose to stop) at 23 miles, I looked down and realized I was on marathon PR pace.
So I kept going and got a marathon PR. Then when Boston came around 3 weeks later, I ran 10 minutes slower.
Dumb.
Average_Joe wrote:
I once did a long run on the Boston Marathon course in which I intended to just run the hills from 16 to 21 hard. But the people I was running with started off briskly and picked up the pace. We started from Hopkinton. By the time we hit the hills we had gone so fast we had dropped most of the pack. I felt great and hammered up the hills. When we got to Washington Square (where we were suppose to stop) at 23 miles, I looked down and realized I was on marathon PR pace.
So I kept going and got a marathon PR. Then when Boston came around 3 weeks later, I ran 10 minutes slower.
Dumb.
Wow.
What was your time?
Average_Joe wrote:
I once did a long run on the Boston Marathon course in which I intended to just run the hills from 16 to 21 hard. But the people I was running with started off briskly and picked up the pace. We started from Hopkinton. By the time we hit the hills we had gone so fast we had dropped most of the pack. I felt great and hammered up the hills. When we got to Washington Square (where we were suppose to stop) at 23 miles, I looked down and realized I was on marathon PR pace.
So I kept going and got a marathon PR. Then when Boston came around 3 weeks later, I ran 10 minutes slower.
Dumb.
Dick Buerkle told me a story once about how he was on a run with Frank Shorter and Tom Fleming during the early 70s. They were planning on going a hard 15 miler. When they got to the 13 mile mark, they all felt good, so they agreed to keep on rolling - they finished a 26 miler in just over 2:15.
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