AM Seasons 52 Park Avenue 5k, Orlando FL
Trackshack Grand Prix Race #5 of 7 (8 miles)
Won in 15:20. Second Place was 15:50. Splits were 5:01 and 9:51. Last year I ran 14:59 and won by 1 min. Last year I was 6 seconds faster at the mile and was 9:45 at 2 miles. Thus this year's last mile was significantly slower ~15 seconds. Kind of disappointing to be that much slower than last year. I suspect that I was in better race shape last year because the first weekend in January I raced a 10k in Charlotte in 30:40 with solid competition and this year the race was postponed and this race was my opener and I was solo by the mile.
PM Atlantic High School track (7 miles)
I had originally intended on doing 3 or 4 sets of 3X300 but with the poor showing at the morning race I wanted to test myself more anaerobicly. I decided to do a mile in 4:20 (~64, 65, 66, 65) 500m recovery, then 2 sets of 3X300 with 1 min recover and 500 meters after each set in (47, 45, 43; 47, 46, 43). I felt good about this workout. The 4:20 started stiff but I settled in and got through it well. I was worried about hitting the 43's for 300 but I fought my way down to it. I have not done speed work that fast hardly at all since living in Florida so I'm happy to have gotten down there even if it wasn't the smoothest feeling 300meters ever run. | 