Evaluation run. Conditions were poor, traction was excellent. 30F with a 25mph wind gusting to 35mph. Ran the loop again, which exposed me to the NW wind for a full third of a mile stretch on each go around. According to the watch, I lost 6 to 8 seconds on each stretch into the wind, and would gain back only 3 or 4 seconds with the wind. For whatever reason, the wind never seemed to be at my back. The pace was all over the place. With each loop being .72 miles, the miles alternated being predominantly into the wind or with the wind. There was a four second difference between each set as you can see in the breakdown.
Three mile warmup in 20:32, then 5:48(157), 5:44(158), 5:42(161), 5:38(163). The 5:38 felt the best of the four, and the 5:42 felt the most uncomfortable. The first mile, the 5:48, I made the mistake of trying to relax into the wind and maintain effort rahter than pace, which immediately chewed up eight seconds that I never got back.
Recovery was the bright point of the day, coming down from a high of 164 to 120 in 1:02, and to 110 in 1:19. Three miles to cooldown on the treadmill in 22-ish.
Run Two | Weather | Supplemental | Nutrition | Sleep | Injury
1 comment:
Those 8 seconds are still haunting you aren't they?
My guess is by marathon time that relaxing will actually start speeding you up rather than slowing you down (an absence of gale-force winds might help too).
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