Laps (best lap 200k 8:05)
More speed work, this time in the morning. I’m trying to shift towards early morning runs so that my work time overlaps more with my west coast co-workers. Otherwise I sign off earlier to get in evening runs and that’s not maximizing the overlap time which can be crucial to getting things done. I prefer running in the evening when I’m more awake but, I’m not exactly waking up at the crack of dawn either.
I switched to metric today in order to start training for a race of 10k next Friday in Palo Alto, CA. I’ll be back west for work and a number of folks at my company have signed up to run this moonlight 5k and 10k that starts around 7PM PST. I wanted to get an idea of how fast I could run 1k and 2k so I could figure out what a race pace for 10k would be.
- Lap 1: 1k, 4:02
- Lap 2: 200k, 8:05 (4:02/km pace)
- Lap 3: 1k, 4:10
- Lap 4: 1k, 4:22
I’ve found that my laps are pretty consistent though I don’t feel like they are while running them. The speed graphs I get off my Garmin Forerunner confirm that feeling. There are definitely slight peaks and a valley or two. I don’t know much about running track so I’m sure there are solid reasons for what I’m experiencing.