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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: March 05, 2018, 08:39:04 pm »wow good shit. remember we had that discussion about whether it was better to have identical splits and try to get PR's or just try to keep up with the leading person. Good to see your approach has worked so well that now you are the leading person for some races
thanks alot man!!
and ya, it kind of went back to what we talked about. I recall we talked about the person who is legitimately leading/faster than everyone, being the only one who can really just evenly pace. If anyone else is trying to overcome that person's performance and pull off the upset, they just have to go way outside of their comfort zone. By leading so easily this race, I was able to just coast evenly. Felt great.
fwiw, i've led other races for the entire time, but those were like this, not super fast. My previous best "easy effort" was my 6:00 min/mi pace for the jingle bell jog 5k, that was an even paced tempo run basically.. kinda cool that my even paced tempo on Saturday was 17s per mile faster !! haha.
I need to get into the sub 17's consistently, in order to potentially evenly pace every race and not worry about losing. Sure some other sub17 people might show up, but it's much more rare. 16:30's can win you 97% of races. 15:XX can win you 99% of races. 14:XX can win you 100% of races. hah. But key point being, by getting to that level, can really just control it and run "comfortable", even though it's still a hard 5k effort.. don't need to risk going into deeper water and drowning, that's the real battle. I mean unless you're racing the clock, that is always there.. but IMHO, when you get really fast, racing the clock is less important than racing to win. Racing the clock might matter more on the track or in some championship etc, but not for most races. Seems like the elite/top guys just race to win, first and foremost.As opposed to "noobs" (of which I am recently graduating), who are most always racing the clock. ie, Joe wants his sub 20 .. eventually, he'll just want to "win". He'll also want to PR his times but, winning will become most fun.
To me personally, I like chasing times in workouts, key workouts/tempo/efforts etc .. then in a race, I just want to race. ie, I know if I can hit X in a workout, I should be able to hit Y in a race, but first and foremost for me in a race is testing myself against anyone who is better, that way I learn what I need to improve. Official times are overrated -> they will come regardless, if you just keep putting in the work, so nothing to stress over. Some people can't stand dropping a bad time, it's funny.. a "blemish" on their record. lol. I have several blemishes, and several very solid performances.
ok went off on tangents and stuff, about to sleep, typing fast.
peace man!
