Oh. Indicator.

M - F

Hammered in on the schedule this week.  6.2 on Monday, 3.5 Tuesday, 3.1 Wednesday to supplement for 1.5 owed from Tuesday, and a total of 4.5 Thursday, including a stab at the indicator run.

Meh.

Meh. Meh. Meh!  Indicator.

My time was ridiculously slow.*** 16 min, 44 seconds.

That means either I sandbagged it a little, or the tweaking of things mid-November really did put a big kink in my overall training.  Sandbagging might be a possibility; I was running in the dark, in the evening, and in a down pour.  By the end I was sopping wet.  Unfortunately, I don't think I can blame that .. the rain felt cool and fun.  I was also running alone-ish, though.  It didn't feel very 'official.'

Using that indicator run, my September 5K PR was 1:30 too fast for possible.  (It was before I got hurt, though, so maybe true).  But my Nov. half (after I got hurt) was still 3 minutes slower than it should have been.  My 'easy' pace approaches 11 minutes.  I haven't hit 11 minutes for anything less than 10 miles in a training run for a long while.  (except to run lead).  I am thinking that there are two things this could mean:  I am seriously inconsistent (duh), that I am not a speedster by nature, and/or that indicator times must have tails and statistical significance, and if you run the + and -, I probably fall within a typical range.  My capacity to hold a pace is no where near the chart, though.  My half pace formula would probably be indicator pace plus 60 seconds, not 40, and my 5K pace formula is apparently -5 seconds.

Not sure if I will try it again.  Might as well just move on to training and racing.  Depending on how I do at the next couple of short distance races, maybe tweak my goals for fall a little.  Or if I happen to be with Michele and Kyle when they do theirs, I'll take another stab at it.

Needless to say, speed work on center stage for Spring!

They are calling for snow Saturday.  Hoping it misses us and my Saturday morning 8k!

*** slow is a very relative term.  when I use it, I mean slow in my little corner of the world, where my numbers are the center of the universe. :)  Your slow may be my fast or vice versa.  This is a no-judgement zone.  Slow to me is just relative to what I've done elsewhere, what I think, hope, aspire to be doing, etc.  When you read slow, substitute 'Judy slow' if you'd like.  Believe me, I know just how fast that would seem to Judy 2014, or how slow my times sound to a good chunk of the running population!  Its all about ME!  (Or YOU!).  Comparing apples to oranges does no good.