So, I was a bit ambitious with my long run for the first week. I wanted to up my pace and also threw in an insanely long ass hill to boot. My goal today was to run at an 11:00 minute pace, which… SO did not happen. I kinda have to laugh at it =) cause it’s like… what was I thinking???
Anyway, here are my splits!
Split 1: 11:14
Split 2: 12:38
Split 3: 11:52
Split 4: 11:52
Split 5: 13:29
Split 6: 13:41
Split 7: 13:45
Split 8: 14:08
Split 9: 15:10
Split 10: 14:10
Total time: 2:32:55 (HOW SAD!)
Average Pace: 13:39 (I haven’t run this slow since February!)
Total Calories Burned: 1,160
Shoes: Asics Nimbus
Today’s run was pretty demoralizing. Not demoralizing in that.. I’m disappointed in myself. I know and now have experienced how tough a run it was. But the hills really took a lot from me both physically and mentally. Even when I hit the downhill portions, I found it very hard to recover. I couldn’t get over the fact that I was feeling extremely tired, that my legs felt like lead, that my butt was burning like crazy, and that I had x number of miles left to go.
I never hit that running “sweet spot,” when it just feels good to be out there, and you feel like you can run forever! Today, the only thing on my mind was… how am I gonna finish this run? How can I go up that freakin’ hill again?!? I’m so freakin’ tired!
And no amount of happy, energetic music could snap me out of it. Not even my more recent power songs!
I’m thinking, now, that I need to tweak my schedule… yet again. My options right now are:
1. bump down my pace to either 11:15 or 11:30, instead of 10:30, keep everything the same
2. keep my goal pace at 10:30, but move my hill running to another day, outside of my long runs
3. suck it up and just get it done
I’m in between #2 and #3, although I’m sure #3 is definitely NOT doable for me. I mean, I struggled to even keep a 13 min pace today. I don’t think I can manage a 10:30 pace with those hills, unless I can use a time machine to go 2 years into the future =P So, I guess that leaves me with #2. I gotta figure out how that’ll work or even if it will work to train like this. All I can say is… I’m really REALLY scared of doing that 5 mile hill at the SD RnR now.
Amazingly, even in my post-run stupor, I managed to squeeze in a 20 min pilates work out. I skipped the buns and thighs one because I figured, I had already done enough to my buns and thighs thank you very much!
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