This week is another 3 x 3 week. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday are three mile runs. Thursday is a cross training day and Saturday will be a 7 mile run. So, it was back to the treadmill today.
Planned workout
8 minutes warmup
3 miles at 9:15 pace
5 minutes cool down
Actual workout
8 minutes warmup
3 miles at 9:15 pace
5 minutes cool down
I felt absolutely fantastic at the beginning of the run. The first mile was completely effortless. The second mile felt good too. I imagined myself putting in a punishing pace in the marathon – much like one of Lance Armstrong’s domestiques used to do in the early portions of a mountain stage during the Tour de France. By the end of the second mile, I was growing pretty tired and I took a walk break at 2.25 miles. I walked for a minute and ran at an ever increasing pace to the 3 mile mark. By the last tenth of a mile, I was running at 6:35 pace. I finished exactly at 27:45…perfectly on my planned average pace.
There was no foot pain, no knee pain, no pain at all. It just felt good.
