Last night after weeks of avoiding it, I finally got myself back to the track to do interval training with running coach Andrew Lockton. With legs feeling slightly heavy from my 18-mile day yesterday, I decided to suck it up anyway knowing I needed to put in speed work. It's something I'm not particularly fond of doing, but it's a necessary evil.
Once everyone showed up, we began at 6:30pm running 1600m at around 10K pace with an 800m recovery. I immediately tried to start off with the couple of 'elite' guys we have in our group but quickly tailed off realizing I could not keep pace with them. So I ran solo. After the initial 1600m, we repeated the same distance at the same tempo. This was followed by two sets of 800m at around a 5K pace with a lap of recovery in between. These were brutal and taxing but I got through them anyway. Finally to end things off, we put in 1600m at an 'easy' pace.
I'm not a disciplined runner - far from it. Whenever I read about the training programs from runners logging 60+ miles per week, my head starts to spin. But I do think that someday, that will be me. I run primarily for the love of running. This always comes first. But in a distant second, there is a part of me that wants to improve upon my time from race to race.
So that's where we're at now. Running a sub-4 hour marathon is my goal currently. If and when that goal is realized, maybe...MAYBE I'll put in the necessary work to try to qualify for Boston.
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Hey again - where are you doing intervals with Andrew Lockton? Is it a group training session such as the Santa Monica Track Club? I've been looking for a fast group of intervals guys to run with round here!
Also, zip me your email so we can coordinate sometime. Would be super cool to meet up to run (or eat!)
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