Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Turned Around

Last night's run had all the potential to be a bad one.

For one thing, I was late getting home. I picked up Jack at my mom's house, and things were chaotic. Jack's stuff was scattered all over the place, and I had to find Roary under the computer desk. Why? Because the little man had just fallen and scraped the Charles Dickens out of his knee and elbow. Dr. Mommy and Nurse Grandma had to patch him all up, and by the time I got home, it was 5:45.

In my rush to get out of the house, I forgot my iPod. Fine, I thought. No music. I don't want to turn back to get it because it's starting to rain.

I ran to the track for my Stairs workout - 1200, 1000, 800, 600, 400, 200. And then discovered that I couldn't run there because there was some kind of track meet going on.

What to do? I couldn't go on the track, and I didn't want to leave and go somewhere else to run. There was a long, straight stretch of road in front of the track, where I've started and finished many a road run for cross country practice in high school, so I decided to just do my workout there. Better than nothing.

It ended up being much better than nothing.

Warm-up: 1.82 miles, 18:54, 10:22 pace
1200: 5:56, 7:55 pace
1000: 5:13, 8:17 pace
800: 4:03, 8:08 pace
600: 3:01, 7:59 pace
400: 1:55, 7:43 pace
200: 54:48, 7:00 pace
Cool-down: 1.37 miles, 17:18, 12:38 pace (there was some walking in there)

Just goes to show, you never know when a good run will find you.

6 comments:

Kent said...

Dang - I would hate to be in front of you on your next 5k... Great speed workout.

Anonymous said...

great workout! Good job I have been big time lazy this week...

suzee said...

Lemons to lemonade!

Your workout inspired me to get off the computer, put my togs on and hit the road this morning... thanks!

Razz said...

Such a resourceful young lass, you are!

Nancy said...

Holy speed demon. My goodness. I'm so jealous.

Nitmos said...

NIce job. Sometimes those impromptu "new course" runs turn out to be the best. Put a little jump in the step.