monday: 6 miles, track workout. today, tori was practicing in the morning, so i told her that i would do her workout with her. this was awesome. we warmed up, stretched, did drills and then did a mile pace, over under workout with at least double time recovery after each repeat. we started with 2x600 at 2:22, 2:24 (shooting for 2:21), 3x400 at 92, 92, 91 (shooting for 92), 3x300 at 64, 64, 62 (shooting for 67, but she was feeling really good after the 400s, so i let her bring it down some). she did some 200s after, but i didn't do those with her because i really wanted to watch her form.
this workout was great for a couple of reasons. 1- i hadn't done a workout on the outdoor track in a really long time, so it was nice to get going on there again. 2- i was really pleasantly surprised how easy the 600s felt. even though i took her through a little slower than she was shooting for, it was more a problem of figuring out that pace than it was the pace being too difficult. i think i could have done 800s at that pace and done a few of them. my guess is that it was somewhere between 5k pace and threshold pace for me. the mile pace works out to about 6:24 for the 2:24 600. my estimate is that it's closer to the 5k end of the spectrum, but regardless, it has me fired up about where my fitness may be at right now. i should talk with dave, but doing something on the track each week or every other week might be a good way to keep myself fired up about training.
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