Streak day 48, 6.73 miles in 1:00:11 (8:57 pace). I decided to do a little up-tempo work for the last 3 miles of my run today, in preparation for Johnny’s 5k.  Nearly four miles into the run, I went for a target of 8:00-8:15 pace for the last three miles, after an easy pace of 9:30-10:00 the first 3.7 miles:

Distance Pace
1 Mi 9:32
1 Mi 9:36
1 Mi 9:54
0.72 Mi 9:48
1 Mi 8:18
1 Mi 8:00
1 Mi 7:49
0.01 Mi 4:00

That might as well have been a race.  Oh, and I decided to turn onto Blue Lick Rd because there was a sidewalk there.  Bad move.  The sidewalk ran alongside a fairly deep ditch, and then was cut off by a fence and that same ditch.  Instead, I had to find a little extra distance on a No Outlet street somewhere else to meet my distance goal:

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Original poster wanted to know if he could improve his 5K time by more than 2 minutes.  I wanted to bookmark it here so I could find it later.

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The initial points:

  • Ramp up mileage to about 35 miles per week.
  • Run mid-week 6 x 800m intervals at current 5k pace with 400m recovery jogs.
  • Run a long run of at least 12 miles with a fast finish (last 2-4 miles).

His result after training was going from a time of 22:55 to 20:30 with about a month of training.

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Louisville Zoo – Throo the Zoo 5K Run/Walk.  May 9th @ 8am,  $25 postmarked before May 6, $30 late registration, $35 race day.

Johnny’s 5k Memorial Run “Racing for Transplant Research” May 30, 2009 @ 8am, $20 registration.  Online Registration deadline 05/22/09 @ 11:59 AM

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