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March 18, 2006
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My legs hurt from the speedwork yesterday. They felt tighter than normal. In fact they hurt before I went out, even when I was lying down. When I got out, it took half an hour of jogging to get everything in order. My brochial tubes feel like someone cleaned them with a wire brush.
According to Greg McMillan's calculator and my half marathon time from Paris earlier this month, I ran a bit harder than necessary for those sprint workouts. I could run those 250 m repeats as slowly as 53 seconds and still get the benefits of a sprint workout. That's 29% slower than my fastest lap Friday.
It could be that I'm training too stupidly, that I could do better when racing if I'd focus less on quantity and more on quality, perhaps reducing not only the speed at which I train on easy days, but also the total training volume. I'm nagged with feelings of not doing nearly enough. Yet I don't have world-class natural ability or will power, nor am I going to get it through training. Need to find a way to do more with less.
Posted by Mark at March 18, 2006 04:57 PM
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