Blogs : Nate Jenkins

Training April 21 to 27

Monday AM woods 6 solo shakeout, hammy tight, legs heavy, 44:43 tot. 6

               PM woods 6 solo shakeout, 44:29, strides tot. 7

Tuesday AM 25+ min w/up 400m in 82, strides, 13x1600m counter clockwise on track at

                      goal mp, give or take, w/ less then minute rest(for exact times see the blog

                      on this workout I put up last week) 2.5 cool down tot. 19+

               PM woods 6+ w/ Gary, Lyra, Nikki, shakeout, 47:11 tot. 6+

               XT Mika hammy exercises

Wednesday AM woods 6+ solo shakeout, 49:25, tot. 6+

                    PM woods 6 w/ uml kids shakeout, 43:54, full drills after tot. 6

                    XT full continuous w/up drills, Mika hammy exercises

Thursday Noon 21:20 w/up 400m in 81, strides decided to push workout to Friday, just

                          trashed, did 6.5 more easy tot. 10

                4PM woods 10 solo easy, 1:10:07 tot. 10

                XT Mika hammy exercises

Friday AM 3.25 w/up 400m in 81, strides, 6x1k (supposed to be 10 but still tired) w/

                   400m jog rest, 2:54.8, 2:56.5, 2:55.1, 2:55.5, 2:55.8, 2:54.7 rests ranged

                    between 2:00 and 2:30 (29:25 for 8k including rests) 23:30 c/down did all

                    running on track clockwise tot. 12

            PM 3+ w/up 25:50, 400m in 78, strides, 5x1600m at goal mp(ended up a bit

                   quick) 4:59.2, rest 51.2, 4:58.1, rest 49.7, 4:55.7, rest 53.9, 4:54.7, rest 58.1,

                   4:54.2 felt great real easy could have done many more but didn’t want to

                   thrash my self with this workout.  Also just as a note this workout is pretty

                   pointless if you are getting ready for a 10k or 5k like I am right now.  I put it

                   here for two reasons, one confidence frankly coming off a **** workout like

                   this morning isn’t easy mentally so doing something that focuses on my

                   strengths is good for that, but more then that I want to do some work at mp

                   goal pace when I’m tired because in the end everything I do is focused on

                   improveing my marathon.  These mile repeats aren’t ideal but they are one of

                   the few things I can do that doesn’t bother my hammy. Strides after the mile

                   repeats with spikes on, just to start getting Achilles used to them, 22:20

                   c/down tot. 12

             XT mika hammy exercises

Saturday AM woods 7 shakeout, 56:06 tot. 7

               PM woods 8 shakeout, 1:02:07, was going to do short hill repeats but I have a

                      touch of a sore throat and stuffy nose and I don’t want to get sick for real so

                      I took it easy tot. 8

Sunday AM rd. 19, hilly, easy, 2:03:46, felt real easy tot. 19

Summary 128 miles for the week, three good quality efforts.  I am still running extremely

                poorly in my efforts at anaerobic training.  I haven’t done a whole lot of this,

                well since college so hopefully it will come around but I have to be honest I’m

                having a tough time seeing myself running low 29:00’s by the time peachtree

                rolls around.  But then I’m having a tough time imagining myself running even

                low 14:20’s for 5k and I did that a few times last year and  I’m in much better

                shape then I was then so I’m sure it will come around.

getting down anaerobically

8:11 PM, April 28, 2008 .. Posted by Jason

Don't worry about it. This same sort of thing happens to me at the beginning of each track season; in the first meet, I usually feel that the pace is really really fast, even though I'd be coming of 5K racing in XC and going into 2mi/1mi racing in the track season, which isn't that much of a faster pace (such as 26.2 switching to 6.2). Anyway, throughout the race I feel like my effort is really hard but after I finish I'm not that tired. Then over the next few meets I get more comfortable with it and it gets easier to race that shorter distance.

Before my current season I raced a 4mi road race in the middle of March, then had my first meet a month later, racing the 2mi and 1mi, so in that first meet I found that, like I said before, I was giving full effort but I felt slow, then after the race I felt like I could've gone faster. It was a lot easier to race those distances in the second meet.

It's likely a lot easier to switch down from the 5k or 4mi down to 1mi/2mi than it is Marathon to 10k but I think if you race a 10k or 5k or 5mi before your goal race (Peachtree 10k I believe it's called?), you'll find it a lot easier to race fast in Peachtree.

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12:02 AM, May 4, 2008 .. Posted by Anonymous

You can't strengthen your injury because it is injured. It needs time to heal. It is hard to take time off and start over because you are in great shape and you might feel defeated but the problem isn't getting any better, in fact, it is only getting worse. Maybe you should take a month and substitute running with other activities to give your leg quality time to heal. When you start again, ease back into to it. Sometimes you need to listen to your body.