Friday, October 9, 2009

Mile repeats by the watch

Nice job in the mile repeats at Bowdoin Park today. It was actually a bit humid and the rain stopped for us.

Coach Chuck ran a few of them with Group 3 and did a great job with it. Interestingly, he noted with his fancy Garmin watch that the thing beeped about 5 seconds before he reached my end-of-mile cones.

This indicates that wheeled measurement is not 100 percent accurate -- especially if the dorky coach (me!) does not walk the tangents as you run them.

Given all this, keep in mind that most of you all ran a pretty strong workout today.

As noted today, those of you that drilled the 3x7 min tempo a bit too hard on Tuesday perhaps paid the price a little today. It's OK. It happens.

Those of you that are going or went home ... have a great weekend. We shall reconvene on Monday.

2 comments:

sean said...

splits?

Pete said...

Sorry, I don't write them down, Sean. On memory, the lead group was around 4:55 for all of them. Second group was in the 5:10-5:30 range, although a few guys busted out some faster ones in the 5:single digits. All things considered, a solid work day.