CrossFit Day 22
Today’s workout was very intimidating. It was only six characters, not counting spaces: Run 10 K. Okay, damn. There is no way in hell you should be trying to run 10 km, Apollo. You’re out of shape, you can’t keep your heart rate under 170, and you don’t know how to warm up or stretch out or run correctly or avoid getting attacked by radioactive monkeys.
Just try to limit the amount of time you spend drinking water at the edge of the track. Maybe go for six laps in a kick.
I got home, bundled up in shorts, sweats, my awesome new beanie, my iPod, my red cycling shell, my GPS unit, my cell phone to record the lap splits, and drove over to the nearby track. I reset the Trip Computer on my GPS, set my heart rate monitor to “hard” zone, and started to step. My goal was just to get through a good chunk of the 10 kilometer distance. Then, I decided to pull back on the pace and see if I could gut out the whole distance. I never wandered from my plan to stop for a minute or two to catch my breath every two miles.
On lap 6, I snatched up my water bottle and carried it for a lap, managed to replace it on the wooden bleacher without losing my kick, and kept on. On lap 12, I decided I should stop after 13, rest for a minute, and start afresh. I kept going, though, and took up the bottle again on the 14th lap. With 2½ miles left, I ate a Clif shot in my pocket and forged onward, relishing the 11 seconds of Stopped Time on my GPS unit that happened between the time I reset the track and when I started running. I relaxed, eased into the groove, and kept pumping. At mile 5, I was astonished that my 11 seconds hadn’t grown. I only had 5 laps to go. On my last lap, I picked up the pace dramatically and almost completely sprinted the last half lap, pushing my heart rate above 200 bpm.
My time wasn’t really anything a real runner would brag about, but this is by far the largest distance I’ve ever run in my life. It’s about twice as far as any non-stop non-walking distance I’ve ever run. My GPS still only has the original 11 seconds of stopped time. I’m slow, still out of shape, but tonight I feel like Superman.
My results: 1:05:32, 1:52 zone (hard); HR: 171 avg, 207 max; 1061 cal
Distance: 6.25 mi (10.06 km). Distance (GPS): 6.45 mi (10.38 km)
Miles:
- 9:54
- 10:22
- 10:31
- 10:41
- 11:00
- 10:57
- 2:07 (single lap)
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