I went out to run today, but I failed to strictly adhere to the slower running pace target, hitting 9 min/mile, above my 9:17 min/mile easy run target. I think I'll just have to risk going slower than 9:17 min/mile.
I'm still very taken in by the slow paced easy running approach. We'll see how it goes. I will probably very shortly toss in a least one day a week of 7:30 min/mile running. I shouldn't do it this week, just to make sure I can rely on the slow paced easy days to keep me injury free.
On the other hand, I've completely slacked off on strenght training, not even doing push-ups any more. I need to get back on track there, even if I need to use 'go to the gym' as a way to get a break from work.
I'm still taken aback that David thinks my 22:06 min 5K is fast given my running for the last half year. True, I've not been able to do any speed work and I've been hampered by foot problems. I have a few race times from long long ago, back in high school, that suggest using Vdot tables I should have been able to run 5K in under 18 min, maybe under 17 min (thought that may just indicate that the Vdot tables are crazy). Even backing off a lot for aging, I should be able to get under 20 min by sometime in the near future, maybe next year, or, since everything takes longer than expected, by 2013. And I wasn't fast back then, I would get badly run down by kids who were much faster than me. And I'd always get killed in the final sprint. But these kids were fast, 4:30 miles, stuff like that.
I am slow, but I want to see if I am training responsive if I do the training right. I never trained right back in high school (I'm sure the faster kids did....at least I hope they did, not so sure about that, I suspect they may have just been fast).
Oh, I was lighter then, 145 lbs or so.
So no, anything slower than 18 min on a 5K isn't fast. 22 min is sort of limping along, not sure if it is even running.
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