We usually go to the Texas School for the Deaf track for track workouts, but now that it is spring, the TSD kids have been using the track some on Thursday nights. We ran up South First street to find that there was a track meet going on, so obviously we were gonna have to find someplace else to run.
We ended up at the Fulmore MS track at Congress and Mary street. It was a little bitty track. We thought it was a 200m track, but Mac brought out his handy wheel and measured out lane 1 to be 240 yards. We laughed as we tried to figure out how we were going to run our workout which was based on the 1000m distance.
Long story short, we ran in lane 2 (exactly 250 yards) 4 times plus about 22 foot measured yards, which was still a little short for what we wanted to do.
1022 yards = 934.52 meters so our times were only 93.452% of the full time they should have been.
We ran 1000m/600m rest/2000m/600m rest/3000m @10k pace
I ran 4:30 for each short 1000, which really is like 4:49 for a full 1000.
1 year ago
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That post, the times, the measurements were way too uber complex.
I think at some point you just need to get out there and run!
Yeah, I totally agree. When Mac measured lane 1, we were all kind of laughing at ourselves trying to do the math in our heads. Thank goodness he told us to run on effort rather than splits.
I am a former math teacher, so Mac kind of joked with me about being the one to do the conversions. I did them the next morning, so we really weren't thinking constantly about them during the workout.
The hardest calculations of the night ended up being counting in our heads which lap we were on...lots of little bitty circles:)
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