Well, it has officially happened. I have eaten the fart of another person. Nope, it was not done intentionally I assure you.
Yes, Monday night's track run was eventful for more than just running results. The coach had us do some new exercises this week. The first exercise was called 500's and consisted of doing a lap around the track plus another 100 meters at a fast pace. You then jog the remaining 300 meters as a recovery and do it all over again when you reach the 400 meter starting point. The Coach told me to finish my lap in 2.17. He told some other people who were with us to finish theirs in a slightly faster time. The Coach also cautioned us to not do the laps any faster than the assigned time (I think he was referring to me with his comment due to my tendency to start out to quick and blow up).
I have not yet learned how to pace myself by just running. So I decided to trail behind the aforementioned people and hit the finish line just after them to get my pacing down right. WOOOOFFFFFFFF, bad idea. The first 500 went great. We hit the time a little quick but we got the first one out of the way and started our recovery lap. I kept jogging and got ahead of the people I was pacing. Our positioning stayed the same until we came up to the starting point for the second lap. I decided to run behind them again, so I slowed down, changed lanes, and waited for them to pass me. As soon as they went by me I moved back over and got a big ole' mouthful of ass air. "Did one of those bastards just sh$# on me", I thought. "Either that or a bird just crapped in your mouth" my taste buds and nose responded back.
I choked through the next lap, hit my time, and decided to get away from the bad air. I ended up being one of the first ones done with the exercise and moved on to the second drill which consisted of doing six 200's like we did the prior week.
I busted those out pretty quick and ended the workout with a nice cool down of two laps. Including my warm up laps, I ran a total of five and half miles with roughly half of that being completed by sprints. Not too shabby.
I completed Tuesday night's run at the YMCA since I had a friend join me in my workout that night. I also tweaked a thigh muscle on Monday so I took it easy and just did a nice slow recovery run.
Wednesday was an off day, so nothing to report there. Tonight's run is six miles, Friday's is Four miles, Saturday's is six miles and Sunday's is ten miles. Hopefully I can get them completed and have me a bit of a recovery week while on vacation next week.
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