Track and Field Blogs - Austin Waldrop

Much to my disgust, I just seem to be doing the same mistake over and over again. I have been advised another way to do my tempo run and I did not do it. He is on to the proper technique for the tempo run by in some stupidity I did not do it. I went to the track and did my tempo run running my first lap in 1:20. The proper pace would be about 1:23 for my first lap or trying to average 5:35 for a distance of about 6 miles. That is how it SHOULD be. On my workout calendar I am supposed to do a 7-8 mile tempo, but I failed to do so. I believe I am missing the point. Next week though I will try to gain an advantage over my stuborness and do it RIGHT. It should have been done right the first time but 7 weeks in it is too late. yet, I cannot say it has been a total failure, when I first started I was only running 2.87 mile tempo runs and at a much , much slower pace. yet, close is not good, it is not the same effect. I will do my best to do it the right way.