Week 2 complete.
I did my MagicMile!
My last MM was in April. And the results looked like this
April 2019 Overall Min/Mile Pace: 11:44
1/4 Mile: 9:08 (OOPS!!)
1/2 Mile: 12:08
3/4 Mile: 12:53
4/4: Mile: 13:05
Extra: 12:13
Because of the too fast first 1/4 mile, Coach Billy decided to go with an 11:24 pace based on that performance. In my mind, 11:24 was the time to beat.
It was about 47 degrees out, but quite windy. Not too bad, but there were definitely some strong gusts. I started out with a 20 minute warm up. I was extra careful to keep this slow to conserve energy. I ended up doing 1.22 miles at a 15:51 pace. Super slow, but got the blood flowing.
Next, I went into the MM:
11:01! I beat my last MM by 23 seconds going off of the "corrected" pace and 43 seconds going off of the actual pace. I did manual segments on this run. After the first segment, I did walk briefly. 30 seconds or less, I'm not sure. I didn't time it. The segments were MUCH closer together (pace wise) than the April MM.
Finally, I went into the cool down. I did 1.31 miles with a 15:38 pace.
Overall, I'm glad that I beat April's time, but I'm still processing it. I kind of wish it was faster, but there has definitely been improvement. Thinking back, I felt worse after the April MM - even my cool down was shorter and significantly slower after that one. April's pacing was way worse and I took a LOT of walk breaks in the last half mile on that one. My heart rate was also (slightly) lower on today's run than on the April MM.
Some improvement is better than no improvement!