Friday, August 12, 2011

Easy Run followed by Strides: 8/12/2011

I intended to do 3.5 easyish miles this morning followed by a few strides.  That's basically what I did.  I stayed at about a 10:30 minute/mile pace and just took it easy enjoying the morning air.  I had some shin pain this morning, probably due to increase mileage and my two pretty hard workouts earlier in the week. 

I decided to add the strides to my workout after some reading on improving speed.  I only did the high knees and butt kicks.  I ran out of time and didn't do the skips and the bounding but hope to work those into my next easy run.     

I'm trying to work out on a new running schedule based on a four day rotation:
Day 1:  Tempo
Day 2:  Easy Run followed by Strides
Day 3:  Intervals
Day 4: Long Run

I'm not exactly sure how this is going to work out given my long run will always fall on a Saturday or Sunday.  My goal is to separate the two runs that are hardest on my legs by a more relaxed run to give myself a little extra time to heal. 

Today's Stats:  I did 3.3 miles in 34:41 for an average of 10:29/mile.  Like I said, slow and easy.  I'm not counting the strides in that.  I did 3 sets of 100 yards each of high knees and butt kicks for a total of 600 additional yards - that's about 1/3 of a mile.
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