Thursday, April 23, 2009

Fartlek is a Funny Word

Time: 60:05
Distance: 9.02 miles
Pace: 6:40
Map

This morning Scotty and were on the streets for the final mini-workout before the marathon. We did 6 x 2 mins on, 2 mins off. The pace was to be at marathon effort but we ended up running a lot faster. After some early mile splits of 7:52, 7:19, 7:16, and 4:11 (for .58 miles at 7:11 pace) we started running quicker.

I flubbed the first 4 minutes so it shows we ran .69 miles which is 5:50 pace (gotta remember 2 hard/2 easy). The rest looked like this, .38 miles (5:15s), .29 (6:53), .38 (5:15s), .28 (7:00), .38 (5:14), .28 (7:00), .38 (5:17), .29 (6:49), .39 (5:07).

I'm not sure why there is a little variation on the pace and distance. It either means that it has taken fractions of seconds into consideration or Mr. Garmin is complete crap. I'll go with the former.

Last couple miles were 7:04, and at 6:28 pace.

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