I am so sorry to hear about all the runners at the Chicago Marathon who had to suffer through the heat, humidity, and inadequate supply of water, and not being able to finish the race. That really sucks. Kudos to Chicago residents who helped out the runners. Now I realize how lucky I am to live in California.

Tuesday 10/09/07

Track workout at Gunderson High School @ 5:40am 46F

1 x 2,000m @ half marathon pace (target pace 6:19min/mile ~1:34/lap)

Lap split

1  1:33

2  1:35

3  1:32

4  1:33

5  1:33

1 x 1 mile @ 10K pace (target pace 6:02min/mile ~1:31/lap)

1 1:24

2 1:26

3 1:29

4 1:28

1 x 1,000m @ 5K pace (target pace 5:49min/mile ~1:26/lap)

1 1:19

2 1:21

1/2 0:40

1 x 800m @ 3K pace (target pace 5:36min/mile ~1:23/lap)

1 1:17

2 1:19

I felt little sick on Monday, but felt better this morning.

After running a mile at a 10K pace, I really wanted to go use the bathroom, but I only had a couple more laps to go, so I decided to stay and finish the run. Thank goodness I live only half a mile away from the track! Somehow, I thought my 5K pace was 1:23 and 3K pace was 1:19. It turns out I was looking at 3K pace and 1-mile pace instead. Now that I look back, it did feel like 3K and 1-mile pace. But at the time, I was concentrating so hard on finishing the run without having “accident”, I didn’t think much of it.

Took the rest of the day easy. I had runny nose and itchy eyes. Did some practice to climb over the parallel bars for Volkslauf after I came back from work.

Tomorrow is an easy day with a recovery run and some resistance workouts. But, I have a dance lesson and a practice with my dance team until 11pm. We’ll see if I have anything left on Thursday morning.