Friday, July 29, 2011

5000m hard

21:00.5
2:06.0 average split
25 s/m
Time    Meter    Split     s/m
4:12.4 1000 2:06.2 26
4:12.4 2000 2:06.225
4:11.7 3000 2:05.8 26
4:13.0 4000 2:06.5 26
4:11.2 5000 2:05.626

Still on the mark for dropping 2 seconds every week.  Next week, I only need to drop 1.2 seconds and I'll still be on pace for 6 seconds down in 3 weeks.

My goal split was a 2:08.  What that means is that I go out comfortably, but when I feel that I'm getting ahead of myself, I'll lighten up until I'm at the goal split.  The 4000m split was me not feeling so great and lightening up to 2:08 more often know that the last 1500-1000 would have to be my fastest.  I understand that my time probably would have been better if it'd just stayed at the 2:05.8 split for the rest of the piece, but it's a mind game.

1 comment:

Tim said...

wow so close to breaking 21...I usually go out at around 2:02 for the first 2k and then just keep my splits under 2:06...I also always know that my last 1K is usually my best split...did this yesterday and pulled a 20:40.1 with a 26 SPM rate