What a feat, despite my sluggish time.

Sat, 12/17-Went to the Y and did 5x1 mile, with 5:00 of lifting between runs.  I did a fair bit of stretching, too!  I worked my legs mainly.

6:45 (donut)
6:59 (treadmill)
6:30 (donut)
7:00 (treadmill)
6:30 (donut)

Fri, 12/16-Took off after arriving at home at midnight.

Thurs, 12/15-Race day.  Met Chuck S, Chuck K. and Greg (blast from the past...coaching days) at the Ramada In in Bordertown, NJ at 5:00.  Made our way to the Armory in NYC; traffic for sure.  Arrived at about 7:00, which was the start time for the meet.  I got in a few laps before they closed down the track.  I ran in the infield and stretched.  The time schedule indicated that the 800 would go off at 8:20.  There were two heats of the women's mile, six heats of the men's mile, two heats of the women's 800, and six heats of the men's 800.  Seeding myself at 2:10, was heat 3 lane 5 in the 800. My race would go off at 8:30 or so.  I was ready and pretty stretched, despite a tiring, emotional week.

My plan was to try to run 32, 32, 33, 33. https://www.armorytrack.org/gprofile.php?mgroup_id=45586&mgroup_event_id=10544&year=2016&do=videos&video_id=190562

I got out okay and found myself in fourth after the first 200.  I saw 32/33 as I crossed.   I was concerned I was a little slow.  I surged past a guy who seemed to be older than I.  Going into the far turn, I passed him.  I must've cut him off because, at the top of the turn, the guy pushed me from behind.  This led me to pick up with pace for the next few meters.  I saw 65 as I crossed.  On the backstretch of this lap he passed me.  I felt like I had slowed down.  On the final lap I felt strong enough to kick it in.  And I did.  I saw 2:11 as I crossed the line.  My official splits were intriguing:

33.049 (33.049)  

1:05.355 (32.307)  

1:39.928 (34.573)  

2:12.087 (32.159)

2:12.09

While I didn't negative split like I did at Ursinus, my last lap was my fastest!  What a feat, despite my sluggish time.

Wed, 12/14-Took off


Tues, 12/13-Went to Westtown School for a brief race-pace workout.  I did 4x200.  The goal was to hit 32/33 with 2:30 rest.  I managed that pretty easily: 33-low, 32-low, 31-high, 31-low.