Race Update

Wednesday, February 20, 2008. 2213 EST. Apartment in Virginia. Cold, cloudy, can't find the lunar eclipse.

Training for the five kilometer race continues. If I have not mentioned it here, I have been training for a five kilometer race. This week, I've started the interval training, a hellish concept of sprinting as fast as I can for short bursts. I don't remember the theory, but this continued sprinting actually makes you faster overall, thereby allowing you to run further in the same amount of time, or something. Its asinine.

What is my goal for this race? I don't know. In high school, when I ran cross country, my best ever time for a race was around twenty-nine minutes. It was roughly an average nine minute mile. For this race, under twenty-five minutes would be amazing, seeing as how that would be a (roughly) eight minute average mile. If training continues at this rate, twenty-five minutes is entirely possible. I just need the internal fortitude to keep up.