Speed

After being told by several people that I need to do some speed work, I finally pushed myself to do just do it (to borrow Nike's slogan). I went to the track to run so that I could re-calibrate my pedometer and seeing as how the track has nicely marked intervals it just seemed the natural place for speed work. After a few warm up laps I settled into a routine... a fast 100-meters and then the rest of the lap at my usual pace. I managed to keep that up for 4 miles. I'm not usually a big fan of speed work because I tend to want to just stop after the fast part. However, I want to improve my time so I may end up visiting the track every couple of weeks. After walking a cool down lap I decided to see just how fast I could go - an all-out sprint. I managed a 20 second 100-meter dash. A far cry from the Olymic medal winners (10 seconds!) and not even good enough to compete in a high school track event, but that's OK. It was really, really fun!