See those cheetahs to the right? That's going to be me at Bizz Johnson. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! Yeah, that's a real knee slapper, huh? Seriously, though, Coach Bill is determined to speed me up since this run is basically flat, so he's going to start incorporating more speed work after the Whiskeytown Relays on September - well, September something. And Coach Bill knows that when this happens, my voodoo doll of him comes out. So watch out, Bill. Just watch out.Yeah, I hate speed work. Funny, I'd rather do hill sprints than do speed work on a flat surface. Running as hard as I can for 1 minute just brings absolutely no joy whatsoever to my life. Plain and simple, it sucks. But, as the old saying goes, "If you always run slow, you will always run slow. If you run fast, you will run faster." Or something like that. Don't try to go all cerebral on me. Even if I got some of the words screwed up, it really doesn't get any deeper in the thinking than that.
So anybody else out there planning on running at Bizz Johnson? Again, a real knee slapper of question considering just about the only folks who read this are my friends and family. Okay, well maybe even they don't read it. Maybe no one reads this. Maybe it's just me blabbing to myself - a much more likely scenario.
4 comments:
Speed work? UGH. I'd seriously rather slog 4 miles up 25% grade, but it does work. I remember once upon a time ago when I snipped 3 minutes off my road 10k PR by doing speed work once/week.
"Once upon a time ago", I should reiterate...
I think the rest of the quote you want goes: "you'll never run fast if you never run fast." Try to gut it out by telling yourself how much better you're getting for each step of suffering now.
I agree speed work is hard but like most other forms of running, the more you do it, the easier it becomes. Think fast, be fast. Think cheetahs!!
You guys crack me up!
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