After nursing my calf injury for the last three weeks, but making it through my 2 X 2 mile legs in the Rubber Chicken Relay without incident I decided that it was time to test out my calf by working on some speed. We were slated to do 10 X 2 dots (two tenths of a mile or 322 meters each) with one dot (one tenth of a mile) recovery. Since I had Eric to run with (or chase,depending on how you look at it) the workout went pretty well. I wanted to run all of these in 60 seconds each (5:00 mile pace).
I went 61.36, 58.96, 60.38, 59.29, 58.92, 60.51, 60.67, 61.14, 61.53, 58.62, so I averaged 60.13. I definitely was going lactic by about the 7th one and just trying to keep my form. Eric was maintaining a bit better and when we decided to 'blow out the pipes" on the last one I think that he must have ran about a :55. Not bad for a couple of 41 year old guys ! At any rate, it was a solid workout and I had no problems with my calf.
Am really looking forward to the 5K in Memphis on Saturday. I hope to run under 17:00 (5:28 pace), so we'll see how things go. Just happy to be healthy and headed in the right direction !!
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