7 x 5:00 @ 5K pace as part of marathon training. Can't remember the rest, but I barely got through five of them and had to shorten reps 6 and 7. That workout gutted me.
7 x 5:00 @ 5K pace as part of marathon training. Can't remember the rest, but I barely got through five of them and had to shorten reps 6 and 7. That workout gutted me.
Hardest Workout? Probably 8 x 2 mi in 80-degrees in the middle of a 137-mile week
Hardest Race: Mount Washington Road Race
16 miles at half marathon pace
This one has a little backstory that I'll try to keep brief.
Cross team only had funding for one bus for both guys and girls team. Huge public school, good program, we had something like 200 people come for try outs. Coach's method was to run us into the ground and whoever walked first got cut until we were down to I think 35.
By end of week we are down to about 80. Coach brings us to a river and splits us into 2 groups, with 4 people get selected as "posts". I was one of these people. Group A jogs on the beach and Group B circles in the river, one side knee high other side nearly waist deep. Switch every 20 minutes.
Problem was, as a post I never got to leave the water. I would run with my group and when we switched to the beach I would stay there as a marker for people to run around me. This doesn't sound bad, but I had to fight the current everyone was making to stand upright which was way harder than jogging on the beach. Plus mile accumulation from that week.
It took over 2 hours to get the team down to 35 or whatever the cutoff was. Worst part was less than a week later we got approved for a second bus and the coach had to call people back. We were all so sore that we bombed our first meet, but did well at states.
More recently my current coach typoed on my schedule and told me to do 12 x 400 starting at mile pace and working down, 400 jog recovery. That was also quite unpleasant and I missed splits at the end. Some of the 10k guys survived it but the speed guys got wrecked.
The most intense race pain I've experienced came during my attempt on a whim to see what I could do in an all out 400. I was a 5k/10k runner and had only run the 400 once - as a high schooler 8 years prior. I had no idea how to pace myself for a 400, so I went out at a dead sprint. Split 24-25 for the first 200 before the monkey jumped on my back. Managed to hold it together until the 300m mark, but in the last 100 I just fell apart. I locked up so bad I felt like I was trying to run underwater. I was so thoroughly unprepared for the full-body pain that I experienced in those 15-20 seconds and the minutes immediately after. It was so much more intense than the pain I felt at the end of a 5k or 10k. Fortunately the pain was over almost as soon as it had begun.
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