FIRST Training Run***

Today was the first day of my training using the Furman University FIRST program that I mentioned in a previous post. I went to the local high school track for the workout. It is about 1 mile or so to the track which makes a nice warm up followed by 6 X 400's with two minute cool downs between laps and a 1 mile cool down jog home.

Here are my 400 splits (400 is the distance around the inside lane of a track: 400 meters):

1:38
1:40
1:40
1:30
1:35
1:35

I expected to do the laps at about 1:45 and actually came in faster, though inconsistent. To put my time in perspective, elite male runner Michael Johnson is the World Record holder with a time of 43.18. I won't be challenging that mark any time soon.

Next scheduled workout is a 4 mile tempo run on Thursday. 1 mile warm up, 2 miles at 5K pace + 30 seconds, 1 mile cool down.


The girls in action
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That is all for today.