Today’s track workout, Eric put together a painful “Danoh Dozen” of 400s, 10 to be exact! I showed up just a little shy of a good warm up. I was able to do one loop around the track before we started. I took a quick look at the HardyBreed Pace Chart that Terry brought. The key to the work out was to run the 400s, 5 seconds under your 5k pace.
I have been looking at doing a 19:00 5k (in my dreams) but to get to that point I have to train at that level. 1:31 – 5 seconds puts me at 1:26 for each 400. All the track guys use seconds when referring to splits so I should be doing 86’s. Not sure why… My watch shows minutes.
I went out easy on the first one. I was not warmed up and didn’t want to strain anything. Here are my splits:
- 1:30
- 1:28
- 1:27
- 1:26
- 1:24
- 1:26
- 1:25
- 1:23
- 1:26
- 1:23
The first few are always the easiest. By number 5 I was thinking this isn’t so bad, just 5 to go. Number 9 just sucked, but all I could think about was that there was just one left. It hurt, my heart was pounding, and I could only think about dying on the track.
I only hope I don’t have to do a Danoh Dozen again….
