Throughout this early season a positive theme for me has been steady run improvement. It seems that with each passing week my running ability and speed has been steadily increasing. My improvement started over the winter when Moose Herring, and Rob Green invited me to participate in their weekend Hammer Trail runs. I spent several months chasing those maniacs through the woods while building my core strength and increasing my run speed in the process. After starting with CVE in January, I have continued to notice steady gains in my running. These running gains have been the most exciting part of my training, and each week I feel like there is another breakthrough. This brings me to this weekend. For yesterday's workout, my plan called for a 75 minute run which included a 30 minute Z3 interval (half ironman pace) with a slight build to Z4 at the end of the interval. I was able to comfortably average 6:49 pace for the interval (key word...comfortably). A few short months ago I would not have dreamed that I would be comfortably running sub 7 minute miles. This is truly exciting stuff and I feel I am making truly huge strides toward my year end goals.
Over the past several years I have realized that the best triathletes are strong runners. This has traditionally been my weakness. Thanks to CVE and the Hammerheads, I am slowly turning my weakness into a strength. When I started this seasonm one of my prime goals was to average 8:00/mile at Ironman Louisville on the marathon (3:30 marathon). I am beginning to revise that goal downward thanks to my awesome coach and training buddies. Cheers and happy training.
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