Thursday, March 8, 2012

I need training partners!

Since Myrtle I have not been able to find anyone to do any of my workouts with me. I’ve done after work, Saturday morning and Wednesday early morning but no takers in spite of the range of hours I have offered. Surely someone else in Charlotte does hard workouts from time to time?? The main problem I have is that most of the local competitive runners who I should be training with have far more flexible or different working hours than me. I seem to be the only 8 to 5 office based runner in Charlotte! My teacher friends often work out after school with their teams and my friends who work from home can usually find a nice slot in their day to get a workout in at a ‘normal’ hour

Anyway, train hard I must (and want) so I’m just getting on with it. Yesterday I headed up to PDS track at 5:30 am and cranked out a workout of 3*1k,4*400,2*1k. Apart from the last k which I was struggling through, I hit all the prescribed times and didn’t feel I had gone to the well like I had on Saturday’s mile repeats so that was satisfactory, although as I told my coach afterwards I think the satisfaction was more down to actually having got another solo workout out of the way rather than with the results themselves. I had spent ten minutes at home thinking of alternatives to doing the track workout before sucking it up and leaving the house but there was no other time. I couldn’t leave it until after work as I had 16 miles planned today and I couldn’t leave it until today as, well, I had a 16 miler to fit in somewhere!

7 comments:

  1. i would work out with you, but you're much faster than me. I work out every tuesday at 540AM and Every Friday at 540AM as well with Spada and Eric usually.

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    1. will definitely work out with you soon Caitlin, especially seeing as you have stolen Spada from me anyway haha!

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  2. When you're ready to make the leap to endurance pizza eating, let me know, and we can totally train together.

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    1. Katie we can certainly make that work! I may even be able to convince the wife to join!

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  3. I miss working out with you...yet you're too dang fast for me! I've been working out with Red who has been an adequate replacement. Knackered after this morning's jaunt!

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  4. Paul - I'm not quite as early a morning runner as you, but if you ever have the desire to run from the office during the day, I can motivate you by yelling mean things from progressively further behind you! Actually, there's decent routes ranging from 4.5 to 6.0 miles from good ole 2300 Yorkmont, just let me know if you ever want to head out. I usually try and pop out between 12:00 and 4:00.

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  5. I'm not as fast but can join in some mornings if you at least want some company. I'm sure we will be running a lot of the same races again anyway!

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