Cramming for Broad Street

Here's a really bad idea.

Don't run at all for two weeks. Then run intervals on a Saturday (3 or so miles) and then a 5K on Sunday.

Then don't run again for another 12 days. Then run four times in a week!

Um, yeah. HELLO, hamstrings!!! Yeeeeoooooowwwwwccch!!! Last night my hamstrings were so sore I swear you could have produced sound from them if you tried to play them like a cello. Not even joking about that. :)

Here are the four running workouts, fort hose interested.

#1
5.4 miles basically at tempo pace. I took the first half WAY too fast without realizing it and forced myself to slow down on the way back. Average pace 8:16 per mile.

#2
3.5 easy miles on the treadmill

#3
Speedwork on the track. Oh, the pain! The suffering! The cursing! 5.2 miles total, but that included a slow warmup, 4 x 800 intervals with 400 recoveries in between, and a slow cooldown back home.

#4
5 miles total with 3 miles tempo in the middle. The tempo miles were 7:51, 7:49, and 7:52, and the total workout time was 40:27... a new 5 mile PR! Yeah baby!!