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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: October 13, 2017, 02:53:51 pm »
Just realizing my 2-mile test yesterday, 2 consecutive sub 6 mile splits, under 12 minutes, and was just thinking back to last year & how many times I tried, and how hard I tried, to achieve that. I must have tried like 15-20 times to get 2 miles in under 12 minutes, then when I finally got that, I must have tried about 6-10 more times to get two consecutive sub 6 splits. So it took a while.
This is only my second all out 2 miles since coming back from injury .. obviously I didn't detrain completely, but I did detrain considerably. So just gives me more confidence that i'm on the right track. I haven't been pushing my miles hard. I've also been pushing my speed "less hard", by focusing on producing that speed but also trying to stay very relaxed, so basically not "forcing it". My weekly mileage is way up, at all time highs, but i'm also getting in ~2-3 rest days per week, so i'm building this mileage during my 2 sessions per day training, alternating hard and light days, while still getting a decent amount of rest.
I feel less confident right now in my "guts", ie, my sheer will power to achieve some major PR times, like I did last year at this time - just willed myself to PR after PR .. but, i'm also trying to deliberately avoid that. I really want to hit PR's without being in complete hell during a race or training. That's where the volume comes in and trying to produce speed without forcing it, and also getting lighter. One example is an official sub 5 mile: I have it in my head right now that I want to hit an official sub 5 mile in December, but, it's a completely different mentality than last year, where I had the same result-goal but not at all the same effort goal. I'd rather hit a more comfortable 4:55 than a grind it out and die 4:55.. I mean, I imagine anyone would.. but, most people don't think about it like that. Most people think about 4:55 as an "ultimate achievement" with massive effort etc.. Everyone I know that wants to break 5, thinks about it like that. I don't though.. I want to hit 4:55 while being able to know I can hit 4:40 in a death run. I guess this is where my mindset has changed regarding running, focusing on pushing my limits without actually spending much time in that area of the field ... i've been removing the idea of "grinding it out to the death", to achieving things "more comfortably".. An example training change specific to that, would be say, 12m x 400 @ 76s, versus 4 x 400m @ 70s, relying more on hard but less intense work, and increasing the volume of it. IMHO, not sure if it'll work as well, but so far i'm optimistic, seems like things have been moving in the right direction.
I like it.
pc!
This is only my second all out 2 miles since coming back from injury .. obviously I didn't detrain completely, but I did detrain considerably. So just gives me more confidence that i'm on the right track. I haven't been pushing my miles hard. I've also been pushing my speed "less hard", by focusing on producing that speed but also trying to stay very relaxed, so basically not "forcing it". My weekly mileage is way up, at all time highs, but i'm also getting in ~2-3 rest days per week, so i'm building this mileage during my 2 sessions per day training, alternating hard and light days, while still getting a decent amount of rest.
I feel less confident right now in my "guts", ie, my sheer will power to achieve some major PR times, like I did last year at this time - just willed myself to PR after PR .. but, i'm also trying to deliberately avoid that. I really want to hit PR's without being in complete hell during a race or training. That's where the volume comes in and trying to produce speed without forcing it, and also getting lighter. One example is an official sub 5 mile: I have it in my head right now that I want to hit an official sub 5 mile in December, but, it's a completely different mentality than last year, where I had the same result-goal but not at all the same effort goal. I'd rather hit a more comfortable 4:55 than a grind it out and die 4:55.. I mean, I imagine anyone would.. but, most people don't think about it like that. Most people think about 4:55 as an "ultimate achievement" with massive effort etc.. Everyone I know that wants to break 5, thinks about it like that. I don't though.. I want to hit 4:55 while being able to know I can hit 4:40 in a death run. I guess this is where my mindset has changed regarding running, focusing on pushing my limits without actually spending much time in that area of the field ... i've been removing the idea of "grinding it out to the death", to achieving things "more comfortably".. An example training change specific to that, would be say, 12m x 400 @ 76s, versus 4 x 400m @ 70s, relying more on hard but less intense work, and increasing the volume of it. IMHO, not sure if it'll work as well, but so far i'm optimistic, seems like things have been moving in the right direction.
I like it.
pc!
lmao.