Tuesday, May 19, 2009

one-mile time trial: 5:43.96

doing the two-mile time trial the other day motivated me to do a one-mile time trial this week.  i knew i was ready to go under six, the question was how far could i go.  

quarter mile splits:
1:22.88
1:28.30
1:29.56
1:23.22

official manual time: 5:43.96 (gps time: 5:26.17)  

the picture above includes my 6th grade mile p.r. (5:43)  i am pretty pumped that after 241 days of training and 70 pounds of weight loss, i was able to run my 6th grade mile p.r.  one might think that a 5:43 would garnish a blue ribbon in 6th grade, but i finished a stride or two behind another very quick 6th grader: dave kleyman.

2 comments:

Mark said...

Rob, new studies say find your all out mile and develop training by it, article in Mo. Runner and Tri-athlete by Mike Arenberg. Good job!!!

Unknown said...

thanks mark - that is some good information. it reminded me of jeff galloway's magic mile. here is the link:

http://www.jeffgalloway.com/resources/gallracepredict.html