Pickard Tempo Run

Time: 93:29
Distance: ~16 miles

Scotty and I scheduled a morning workout that was designed to mix things up. I suggested a tempo run with a little something on the track afterwards. After a 28:37 warmup ending at the corner of Pickard and Imhoff, we discussed whether or not to do a 5 or 6 mile tempo. I knew that we should end at the corner of Lindsey and Pickard, but didn't know which distance to do. It sprinkled on us a just briefly the last few minutes of the warmup and since the temperature was down we opted for 6 miles. The loop was twice around a 2.5 mile loop, plus the final mile up to Lindsey.

Target: 6 mile tempo @ ~5:30 pace. C/d to the track and run 800, 600, 400, 200.
Splits: 5:29, 1:21, 5:31, 1:24, 5:29, 1:24, 5:25, 1:23, 5:24 for 32:54 at 6 miles.

Jogged 11:09 to the OU track and slipped on the adizero Tempo flats.

Splits: 2:20, (2:13), 1:41, (2:07), 65.46, (63), 30.92 for 11:04 at 3,000 meters.

I felt fairly strong this morning and especially the last 1.25 miles. I tried to remain as relaxed as possible and let Scotty D lead for the first 2.5 miles or so. I took a vanilla Gu at the 2.5 mile mark to see what it would be like around race pace. At about the 3.25 mile mark I picked up the water I strategically placed on a fire hydrant and attempted to drink out of it which was pretty difficult. I'll definitely have to practice my techinique in the weeks to come.

I wore the Axiom 2's for the tempo run and thought they got the job done. However, they were squishing with sweat afterwards. I've never had this happen to me in the past with any other shoe and first noticed it when Scotty D and I were doing a tempo run and he was wearing a pair of Glycerins.

After the work on the track, Scotty and I jogged barefoot on the infield for 7 minutes. There was a quick break to clean up the feet and then I headed home getting in 20:54 total