Life and the half-mile
Okay, I know I suck for not writing more. I should be lucky to have this opportunity and I haven't been putting it to much use..so, I'll be better. I promise. That makes me sound like I'm some kind of abusive boyfriend to a running blog, which is hilarious given the fact that running itself is the ultimate abusive partner.
Anyway, life is going on right now. And by life, I mean work at the startup. When I joined up with the guys at the startup, I knew it was going to be a shift from the consistency of Yahoo!, but no matter how much you attempt to adjust for it, there are always areas of impact that you didn't quite consider. This past week or two has been particularly unusual in that as we wrap up another cycle for a new release of our software application, my time and the time of my teammates has dramatically ramped up as we bust to meet not only our deadlines, but the very lofty goals which we defined for the release. It's very stressful - in a good, creative way - but that level of effort and commitment often comes at the expense of other things in my life, and unfortunately in that vein one of the first things to go is always my daily workout.
This itself is actually doubly problematic because I've decided to take a strength approach to my 400m training, due to the inability to gain access to an actual track for the time being. I've decided to take a programmatic, almost cross-country like approach, training with miles and tempo runs to build a base of strength and stamina in order to be able to do longer sprint workouts and fast-paced runs later when it is warmer and presumably I will have either adapted to a schedule (ie: I'll have figured out how to handle the situations and plan better) or I will have simply decided to work around the necessity to work out, as in theory I can work anytime whereas I can only do sprint workouts when the track is open and so on.
Since I've been stressing strength and base over speed, I've put myself on the line for the half-mile (tentatively) for my next two meets, just to give myself a better idea of where my level of fitness is and how much longer I need to devote myself to base running. I've been working out at about 15 miles a week, alternating days where I'm really moving with days where length and consistency are the key. I'd estimate in peak fitness I probably could have ran a 800 in around 1:53 or 1:54 (despite not being specifically trained for it), so I think if I come anywhere near 2:00 or so in the next two times I run it, I'll be content with that and move towards sprinting.
Of course, none of that is possible until I get off my butt at work and start running, or start planning for days in which I know my workload will be crazy and figure out alternative plans. There really is no substitute for working out - and I remember all my old friends from college who were nursing injuries or whatever trying to use the excuse that hitting the bike was the same thing (ha!) - and I really should know better than to be lazing it up like I've been doing. It's just going to make that half-mile hurt worse and worse.
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