So, with the relay fast approaching, I decided to try and attempt a bit of a simulation.
I started Thursday with a morning and afternoon run, repeated that for Friday, and then did a Saturday morning run. Basically 5 runs in 48 hours. If you count the 1.15 mile team prologue run and your damn right I will, I'll do 5 runs in 34 or so hours during the relay. Not super accurate on the time intervals but hopefully better than nothing. Mileage wise, I'm scheduled for 16+ in the relay and I did 19+. My longest run in the relay is my last one and I did that yesterday as well.
I'd never done doubles before so that alone was a bit of an eye opener. I was expecting to feel some tightness as it all went along, and if anything, it was the opposite of that. Friday morning wasn't too bad. Friday afternoon was tough. Saturday was flat out hard.
I was doing 5.35 miles and as the laps went by, I was having a harder and harder time running through my full three minutes intervals. Toward the end, I stopped a couple of times close to 30 seconds short... Man, I was huffin and puffin and really fatigued and generally feeling pretty damn negative about the whole situation.
And then I got a little shot of perspective. I came home and entered my time in the log and as bad as it felt, I completed it at a pace that was faster than anything I've ever logged at an event. My worst pace right now is still better than last Springs at the time best ever PR's.
So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.
It does knock a lot of the edge off. I'm also pretty damn close to what I gave our Team Captain... within 5 seconds per mile.
I'm still nervous about the prologue and epilogue runs you do with the whole team. I'm the only run/walker on the team and there appears to be some really fast people on this team. I'll talk to the Captain and see what he's thinking. I don't think I can run a mile. Man, that sounds strange but it is what it is.
