800 X 10 Repeats. Phew!!!

This is a milestone. The first time I completed 800 X 10 repeats. I did it on the treadmill, which I'm not sure counts the same as a track, but I finished. I had some doubts after the first one, but I thought about Sarajane who said she never quit what she starts. In the words of my son's tae kwon do coach: QUITTERS NEVER WIN. WINNERS NEVER QUIT. I'M NOT A QUITTER. I'M A WINNER. Gosh, I knew that would come in handy some day!

I have converted these times from the trinewbies treadmill conversion chart. The treadmill was set at 1% grade the whole time. All intervals were .25 mile or 3:75.
Warmup: 1.25 miles (easy)
1. 4:22
2 4:22
3 4:22
4 4:22
5 4:22
6 4:16
7 4:16
8 4:16
9 4:09 (ok, I thought I'd get macho here)
10 4:16
Cooldown: 1/2 mile. That's all I could do. My legs felt like jelly and I was starving. In all, I covered about 8.5 miles, but I'm not exactly sure. I had to dismount for 2 quick pit stops and lost track of distance. When I'm not wearing my Garmin, I tend to lose track of all but the most basic information. I can count to 10, but that's about it.

I was feeling kind of slow the first 5, so I came up with a plan that I would do the next three at 8:32 pace and the last two at 8:18. After all, my oldest son claims that if I want to run a 4 hour marathon, I should at least try to run a 9:00/ mile. He does have a point. I could feel that I was pushing it too hard for 800s on the 9th one. Maybe 400s but I didn't want to kill myself. McMillan's calculator (nice to look after the fact, huh?) indicates that I should be doing my 800s between 4:18-4:30 so I am right in there. It also claims I could run a marathon in 4:34:02 but that remains to be seen. I'll take 4:40 this go round.

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8 more miles in the Shines. They felt great, but I notice I have a blister on the back of my left heel. My orthotics don't fit snuggly enough in the shoe.