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8 miles
1.5 mile warmup
10 X 400m @1:35 target (1:26.5 actual!) 400m RI
1.5 mile cooldown
Good workout today. It rained and drizzled until mid-morning, and I was able to get out to the track at about 11:00. These 400 meter sprints (not quite sprints, but close) are much easier mentally than the longer ones, even though there were 10 reps. My time was substantially under the target - almost 10 seconds/rep faster. Slowest was 1:31 (first one); fastest was 1:19 (last one).
Got talking to another runner, and it turned out that she is on the same "Run Less, Run Faster" training program. She had done a number of marathons, including Boston, and was able to give me some advice. I realized that one thing I haven't thought about at all is hills, which is a big factor in the Boston course, and somewhat less for Philly. I guess it is a bit premature to be worrying about Boston....
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I used to do those 400 intervals and I thought they were killers. Whatever time you can do on those you should be able to just about maintain that pace for a mile. So if you can do 10 at 1:25, theoretically you could do about a 5:40 mile.
Dad, I like that theory as long as I don't have to test it. I'm sure I haven't done a mile under 6:00 since high school.
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