A Week of Speed Sessions

Actually, I have had two speed sessions this week. First session was on Saturday, July 16 and Wednesday, July 20.

Saturday's session consisted of 5X1 mile repeats. One of those repeats was my magic mile. It was 39 seconds faster than my last magic mile! 9 minutes!! Next time perhaps I can come up with a magic mile that has an 8 in front of it! At any rate, my splits were as follows:

Mile 1: 10:49 Easy warm up before the Magic Mile
Mile 2: 9:01 Magic Mile!!
Mile 3: 10:09 Good pace, faster than my desired marathon pace of 11:00
Mile 4: 10:13 Still felt good!
Mile 5: 10:13 Still felt good!

I walked 5 minutes between each mile repeat for recovery. I felt great after this session.

Wednesday's session went very well. The temperatures were significantly warmer than Saturday, but I wasn't concerned since I was running 400 meter repeats. My splits were as follows:

Repeat 1: 2:14
Repeat 2: 2:15
Repeat 3: 2:12
Repeat 4: 2:12
Repeat 5: 2:16
Repeat 6: 2:12

I ran/walked 400 meters between each 400 meter repeat. I wanted to run 8 repeats, but I decided that it was too hot. So I settled for 6 repeats.

I'm learning to enjoy track workouts because they are helping me build confidence!!

Now, I'm looking toward Saturday's 17 miler. I hope to start early enough to beat the heat, but if not, I will just go slower and break it up for some cool down sessions!