Training Week Two

Week two is in the box, as they say, and I clocked twenty-three miles. Three of them were 1000 meter sprints (or as close I come to sprinting) and another seven or so were tempo or race pace, so I feel like I'm getting a pretty well-rounded bit of training right now. Unfortunately, my times aren't looking so hot. Interpolating from my nine-miler on Sunday, I'm looking at a 2:10 pace for the half marathon. The hope I'm holding out is that folding the warm up into the first few miles like I do means I'll be considerably faster on race day, when I warm up for thirty minutes before the gun goes off.

I had to rearrange a couple of workouts to fit in the veterinary emergency (more on that later), so tomorrow is another intervals day. The plan is to do a 7x880 at around 3:30 each with a two minute break in between. Football practice ends at 7:00pm, so I'll be doing these under the lights, something that always makes me feel equal parts heroic and pathetic.