May 15th, Monday

Strength or Speed?  BOTH !

On a breezy, May Monday I headed to the cinder track for a bit of work. I began with a mile of jogging and walking, stretching and 5 x increasingly longer pickups. My current warm-up plan consists of completing 6 pickups of 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 and 100 strides .  The goal is to become accustomed  to a specific warm-up that I can duplicate on race day .

The workout consisted of 2 x 800m in 4:00 each, followed by  2 × 400m in 1:43 and 1:40. I still hesitate to train too fast for fear that I will re-injure my legs and hinder my performance at the Nationals.

It is a coaching dilemma. Is one able to race fast without training fast?

Stats –

I-Mad = 0

I-Mid = 1.5

Weight =   #147.4

a.m.HR = 54BPM

Sleep = 8 hours

Workout = above