Track Workout

Went out this morning close to 5:30 am. Jason and I headed down to the High School to do our track workout. We normally run on the Jr. High track because it literally is over the fence of the backyard. But I always want to run at the High School because it is such a better track.

It is about 1.25 mile to the track so we used the run as our warm up. It was still dark and the track didn't have any lights on. I stopped just for a second to have Jason show me how to turn the light on the watch so I could keep track of my pace. I ran the same workout last Wed except at the Jr. High and it was 7ish in the evening. I did not have HR on last weeks run. I wanted to see the stats side by side because I did not think I ran well this morning.

	18-Apr	25-Apr
Warm Up	19:32	11:02
1	N/A	3:35	183 HR
2	3:34	3:36	185 HR
3	3:32	*3:40	184 HR
4	3:33	3:36	185 HR
5	3:32	**3:39	183 HR

RI HR was in zone 3, last RI HR in zone 2


There could be a few reasons for the slower paces this morning.

1. Today was a morning run and I have run in the evenings for the last 9 months.(that is why my consistancy is so bad, lots of distractions)
2. I did not have a pacer. Last week Jason kept me on pace and this week he had a 5 mile test. I definatly do better with a pacer, this is a weakness in my running that needs attention.
3. I am 3-4 days from starting my cycle. Ugh...

I wanted to get this down as record so I can see how this changes when I get back to 800's again in a few weeks.

* This lap I did not look at the watch to track my pace at all. I just went off feel.
** I almost didn't do this lap, when I told that to Jason he said "you can do it." so I was like, "ok" and went and did it. Happy I did even though the time was on the slow side.