Chasing Mediocre

First off, I just wanna say sorry for leaving you all hanging for so long, school has just taken a big toll on me. 

Second I wanna say that I prob wont be positing on this tumblr anymore since it was created for a school project that has just finished and I don’t have anymore motivation. 

Third I wanna anounce that I did reach my training goal of doing a 3k in 12mins wich I’m very happy about!! 

So thx to everyone who read or comment on my posts I really appreciated it!!

So far this week I’ve fully followed my plan from last post but with and added 1h bike ride saturday. Unfortunuitly my healths been acting up lately so I couldn’t run today like I planned, but I will probably be back tomorrow with some interval work. 

Sorry for being gone so long again, I was on vacation then I got sick, the was bombarded with projects.  

First off happy march break to any other students!!

Second my weeks fitness plan:

Saturday 9th (yes I know this was yesterday, I got caught up) 

-1 hour bike ride as cross training for running with the power watts programme (I’ll do a little post about this it’s cool)

-45mins boxing for general fitness 

Sunday 10th 

-Was supposed to run but snow storm 

Monday 11th 

-treadmill 5k at 4:50s per km (not too hard but not really easy)

Tuesday 12th /wednesday 13th 

-On one day I’ll do 3x 1k at 3:50-3:55 pace 

-If i can run a second time during this it will be a easy 5k plus I’ll stretch regardless 

Rest of the week 

So I’m back with the second part of this race information post.

The actual race happend sunday and I’ve gotta say though I didn’t 100% reach my goal I’m fairly proud of my result because I more or less (except for km 3) followed my racing plan to the letter witch is basicly a first and I had a really good last 250m sprint! 

So my final time as you can see on the my race data chart is 23:58 witch is not perfect but as I mentioned my individual km where very good. If you look at the part 1 of this post you will see that my goal was to negative split the race (4:55, 4:50, 4:45, 4:40, 4:35). And the comparison to my data is not too far off, except km 3, I’m not exactly  sure what happened but I felt really bad for that km and I’ll be working on that. 

Also as I mentioned my closing 250m and I can’t say for sure what the exact time was but it was at around an 3:15 pace. 

So in a couple days I’m gonna be participating in my second race of the year, again this does not count in my actual cross country or track seasons it’s just a comunity road race, but it’s good practice for the real thing. 

This race is a team event, where you and your partener take your combined times and race in your combined age agegroup. It’s a 5k race on a mildly hilly course (elevatuon loss: 15m/elevation gain: 20m), I’m running it with my coach. 

My plan for this run is to do try and negative split the each km, starting with a 4:55, then 4:50, 4:45, 4:40, 4:35 with a sprint for the last 500-250m. 

Jillian Micheals 

Monday 21st

5k at 4:33min/km pace on the treadmill + a good 20 mins of stretching

Tuesday 22nd

I have to babysit all night:( so no running (maybe 10-15 mins of stretching)

Wednesday 23rd

1k at 4mins per km 

1k at 3:55mins per km 

1k at 3:50mins per km 

1k at 3:45mins per km 

2k at 5:30mins per km 

20 mins stretching 

Thursday + Friday 24-25th 

5k easy day, one of these day, (judge pace by feel 60% intesisty) 

Saturday 26th

Every saturady from now on I’m doing cycling cross training for running.

It’s one hour of cycling indoor on different preregistered corses. 

Sunday 27th 

So I told you all that I had a race on the 6 of Jan and I just want to tell you how I did. 

1st place!! (In the U 19 womans categorie) 

My time wasnt as good as I wanted 39:39 for 8k, but the course was really really bad, it was by the water(so windy) on ice with a max course elevation of 94m (thats really high people!!) 

So I know that not an excuse but I do feel a little better about being of by like 8secs a km.

I’m doing a road race in 5 days (6th of jan) just to stay in shape. As sort of a way to get into the racing mentality.

So I really am sorry for not posting, two weeks ago was my last week of school before the break and I had several projects due and then last week was christmas and all that so I was super busy. SORRY 

Anyways you humans haven’t missed to much on the subject of my runs, cuz I had a short break around christmas and now I’m sick and just running every day I can. 

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