Sprint Intervals - 10x400 - 6 miles

Last night my worries got the best of me and I tested my blood sugar a few times. Before eating dinner, it was 66. An hour after dinner it was 67. This morning it was 65. I suppose things are in control. :)

Today, I'm happy to report that I did the best with intervals than I've done over the past month, at least! I did them on the treadmill to help with sticking on pace, and felt really, really good. The fact that it was 400m intervals helped, I'm sure. Specifically, 10x400 with 400m rest intervals in between. 10 minutes for warmup, 10 minutes for cooldown, with stretching time afterwards. I iced my leg tonight. Goal pace for intervals was 7:22, but the treadmill wouldn't do exactly that. Of course I didn't want to go faster, so I went one notch under. :) 8.1 mph was the treadmill setting, rest intervals were 6mph.



Intervals:
1: 7:51/mi
2: 7:29/mi
3: 7:28/mi
4: 7:38/mi
5: 7:32/mi
6: 7:34/mi
7: 7:38/mi
8: 7:39/mi
9: 7:24/mi
10: 7:42/mi

What's interesting to me there is the speed difference the treadmill had each time I put in the same setting.

Total 6 miles, 57:45, 697 calories burned.

Today's Tweets

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04:47 Wt: 178.2, RHR: 45, BF: 17.9, DWD: 4 #

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11:10 Time to go get the car smogged. Yippee! #

12:21 Smog check guy's yelling obscenities at the phone. It didn't ring until he started working on my car. #

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17:28 Off we go, into the Diet Dew yonder... #

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18 Mile Long Run + Running Vlog!

It's the farthest I've ever run, and I decided to just take it easy and not stress about it. I did much better during the course of the run in staying fresh, but it sort of fell apart in the end. While I was trying to keep myself fueled up, I think I failed there as well, because I was starving at the end, and was having trouble running. Add to that the headache that kicked in around mile 14, and running out of water at mile 15, and it wasn't the greatest run I ever did. I did a lot of walking at the end.

A couple of times I stopped for a restroom break. I almost peed my pants at Mile 5 and had to stop at McDonald's. Another time I stopped to use the restroom again because I knew it'd be inconvenient if I didn't, and ended up going more than I anticipated.

Either way, I got my miles in. It was fun. Towards the end of the run, I ran by two Sheriffs. One said to me, "Keep going, only another 20 to go!" I said, "I'm at Mile 18 now," to which he responded, "That's... IN... SANE."

It's on.





Splits
Mile 1: 10:03.88
Mile 2: 10:02.27
Mile 3: 10:19.27
Mile 4: 10:37.69
Mile 5: 11:19.64
Mile 6: 10:03.09
Mile 7: 10:27.21
Mile 8: 10:34.16
Mile 9: 10:10.69
Mile 10: 10:08.66
Mile 11: 10:15.11
Mile 12: 11:42.16
Mile 13: 11:05.86
Mile 14: 10:57.89
Mile 15: 11:31.20
Mile 16: 15:54.27
Mile 17: 19:18.97
Mile 18: 17:13.41

18 miles, 3:38:14 (minus stopped time), 2326 calories burned





As a reward, I'm not running again until Tuesday. Yesterday afternoon was Gregory's Pinewood Derby race, I'm editing a video and will post about it later. We had a lot of fun!