The beauty of music, a renewed 10km PR!!! November 27, 2005
Posted by clayton in : workout , add a commentI almost forgot I had 2runs today, one in the morning just to wake me up, a nice and easy 5km. The second run was planned to be a refresh run from all the studying but I still felt like I was flying, I went for a PR. I was suppose to go only 14km today but what's the difference? I have a hard time trying to calculate 14km with my 2.5km running course. I studied the whole afternoon today, maybe 5 or 6 hours? and I was glad I had the 5km in the morning, it really woke me up. Maybe I should start running in the morning? I might get better grades in school. Unfortunately, no bike though…Unfortunately?? The weather was perfect outside, just didn't get enough sleep so I was in lazy mode this morning.
The first run: I said I ran in the morning but to tell the truth, it was 11:30am, that's still morning, right? Came back just a little before 12pm. It was HOT outside, 25C. Well, that feels hot after all those 20C days. I was kinda wiped out by the heat but was able to focus on studying afterwards. My lap times were 1st 11:13, 2nd 11:05. Total 22:18.95. Kinda like a pace/tempo run.
The second run: Now this was a disaster. The lap record I renewed yesterday…Well, in today's run, ALL of my laps were faster than that. The lap times? 1st 9:06.58, 2nd 8:55.90, 3rd 9:03.18, 4th 8:34.85, a total of 35:40.51!!! Will I brag to my swim coach? Naaa, I think I'll keep it a secret for a while, maybe tell him about it after the marathon. The 1st lap was a REALLY fast one ofcourse because I've just renewed a lap record and that REALLY made the 4th lap a real challenge. It was a nice steady lap. The 2nd lap…The usual "stab" feeling came to me but I was able to run it off, and this was the first time running the lap within 9min. The 3rd lap, my legs were starting to lose energy but I just couldn't give up a new PR so I again, ran it off. The 4th lap was the toughest of all, I literally could feel my heartbeat in my head, running out of gas but couldn't slow down now that I'm one (or a few hundred) step away from renewing my PR, I mean, it was obvious but 35min is better than 36min, isn't it? It was so tough…I didn't even have the ease to check my time. I come home and look at my gatorade bottle and it says, "I won't lose to feeling tired, because I know the great feeling of victory that follows." ~Vince Carter, professional basketball player. What a coincidence, I was feeling tired (before the run) and I felt that feeling of victory that followed. I listened to the radio (internet radio) as usual and they were playing some good jazz, the kinda music where you imagine the sun going down into the ocean and makes you feel like you had another nice day;-) How relaxing!!!
Tomorrow: I'll think about having a hill climb tomorrow, might just run and then study all day.