This week was a good week of running. The weather cooperated (except that pesky little breeze on Friday) and the drills were a great compliment before my daily runs (except the 11 miler...Sara, we forgot about doing the drills before that...oh well...should have done them at our pitstop at McDonalds!!! LOL).
Wednesday for me is all about speed or hills. I teach a class at the Y that I have secretly disguised as a way to get my friends involved with the enduring pain of evil speed intervals or hill repeats with me so I don't have to do them solo. This Wednesday was no different. After a mile or so of warm up, we did what I call "lightpost sprints": sprint 2 lightposts, recover 1 lightpost. We do this for about .75 miles and do a steady jog for another .25 miles and then do it all over again. We were to do it 3 times. Cruel, I know.
I started my first round of lightpost drills with Kara, who happens to run like a freakin' jackrabbit. I concentrated on my arms and lean during this torture and felt I held it together pretty well. The lean really helped with the speed. I didn't look at my watch so I have no idea how fast we were going. But it was fast. The second round I let Peg take on Kara and I encouraged a new participant with her lightposts. Translation: Hell yeah, I took a break. GEESH.
The 3rd go around I let Peg off the hook and I went back with Kara. At the second interval I glanced at my watch. 6:20 pace. Gulp. I felt my arms start to flail a little bit. Recovery time. Whew. Third interval starts up. 6:15 pace. Elbows are out, hands are out of control, and who the heck knows what my feet are doing. And there it went. Good Form Running right out the window.
Does Kim+Speed=bad form? Can't wait for filming the timed mile. Yikes.
That was one tough workout! I feel like I have made progress with running form, but you would never know it when I am trying to push speed. Hopefully having the camera one us for the timed mile will make us "try" to do better.
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