Look at me, I’m Kara G.
Apologies to Grease and Ms. Goucher, but I’m just so excited about my interval run tonight. As speed work goes, it wasn’t all that speedy. Lots of people run marathons at a much faster pace, but it was an adventure for me. This is week 14, or week 3 (depending on how you count) of the FIRST program, with intervals of 1200m, 1000m, 800m, 600m, 400m and 200m, separated with 200m rest intervals. As the distances got shorter, the speeds got faster. I was a little worried in the 1200m, but oddly enough, after the rest, the next interval didn’t seem any faster than the previous one. I started with a one mile warm up, with strides. Holy crap, intervals and strides from the woman who went out for a walk one day and out of nowhere decided to run a bit, and ended up at the lake. Even though I’ve logged some serious miles, I’m still surprised and amused by my evolution as a runner. A year ago a reference to repeats, strides or any technical running word had me turning the page to look for pretty pictures! So, even Diva’s can evolve. Who knew?
January 30th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Who is Kara G?
Intervals can be a lot of fun. They are very satisfying when you are done. The 400m and 800m intervals are fun because when you start feeling tired, you don’t have much farther to go. The 1200m’s can be killers because you start getting tired, but you still have to run for a while. Ack! I think the hardest week in the intervals is Week 8 (or week 9 depending how you count). The 1600m followed by the 3200m is really tough!! The 2x 800m’s seem easy afterwards.
Have fun! Maybe you can run a sub-4 hour marathon? Maybe qualify for Boston? Who knows where this will end? LOL!