Day 53 Track Workout – Cruise Running at T-Pace

Track Workout Log – Summary

Days to Marathon: 53
Training Week: 19 (May 30 – Jun 5)
Training Day: Wed, Jun 2nd
Warm Up – 10 mins
Cruise Running 2 Sets of FOUR 400 meters laps = 8 laps Total
1st Set Lap 1 = 1 min 46 secs, Lap 2 = 1 min 48 secs
1st Set Lap 3 = 1 min 42 secs, Lap 4 = 1 min 40 secs
2nd Set Lap 5 = 1 min 36 secs, Lap 6 = 1 min 38 secs
2nd Set Lap 7 = 1 min 32 secs, Lap 8 = 1 min 36 secs
Cool Down – 10 mins
Total Distance (incl. warmup, cooldown): 4.02 miles

After almost 2 months of injury, illness, new job stress and all else that was making my hair turn silver almost as fast as President Obama’s hair is turning, I finally got back into the San Francisco Training Program about 2 weeks ago. Then we had a break last weekend and beginning of this week for the long Memorial Day Weekend Holidays, so my comeback sort of got “disrupted” again.

So last night track workout at Kezar Stadium was the 1st real track workout I had done in almost 2 month since I took a break from the San Francisco Marathon Training program in mid March. I ran with Jess, Nader (ShortForm.tv co-founder) and few new people I had never seen before. The workout was pretty intense, and Jess, our pacer and SFM trainer, kept us “on track” to finish 2 sets of 4 by 400m runs (i.e. 2 sets of 4 laps around the inner track at Kezar Stadium).

My times from this run were significantly better than the same workout 12 weeks ago back in March, when I was averaging at about 2 minutes per lap. This time, I was averaging about 1 minute, 40 seconds per lap.

So this is a 16.66667% improvement in my speed and endurance! Yay ! Thanks to Tom Collier, Jess, Amit and everyone else from the Training Program including my fellow running Peeps (Angela, Nader, Luis) who keep me going!

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