Training Log: The 2009 Arnold Classic 5K Pump and Run
- Day 12
Filed Under (Training) by admin on 04-02-2009
Tagged Under : Arnold Classic, David Goggins, Pump and Run, Stevie Nicks
TODAY’S TRAINING INSPIRATION:
DAVID GOGGINS
To the right today, former Navy SEAL and one of the world’s top ultra-endurance athletes, David Goggins. Goggins began competing in distance running after serving in Afghanistan in order to raise money for the families of soldiers.
During his brief career, he has already competed in, completed and placed highly in the Badwater 135 miler, a 135-mile race in sweltering heat with an upward incline (done in under 26 hours in 2007).
He has also completed the HURT 100 race multiple times, a race that involves 25,000 feet of elevation gain and 25,000 feet of elevation loss. And every time he goes out there, he does it for people other than himself.
That is how to throw down.
Okay, on to today’s training, which is not going to impress anyone after reading about the Badwater 135 but anyway. After yesterday, when I did my first 10K training run since beginning this program for the 5K…I decided to do the same thing today.
Yesterday, I went the whole way at 8.5 mph and considered it a medium-high intensity run. Today, I would try to do the exact same distance at the exact same speed.
TODAY’S PERFORMANCE
10K Run Time: 44:27
iPod songs during the training run (custom):
1. Kim Wilde – You Keep Me Hanging On (12″ Mix)
2. Kim Wilde – You Keep Me Hanging On (Thin Thread Extended Remix)
3. Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Relax (Jam & Spoon Trip-o-matic Fairy Tale Mix)
4. Linkin Park – Enth E Nd
5. Madonna – Like a Prayer (Gospel Prayer – Guyom’s Lady M Show)
6. R. Kelly / Ludacris / Kid Rock – Rock Star
7. Madonna – Like a Prayer (Gospel Prayer – Guyom’s Lady M Show)
Stevie Nicks – Edge of Seventeen
TRAINING NOTE
Well, yesterday 6.25 miles at 8.5 mph was medium-high intensity. Today, it was full-out maximum intensity pain. My legs had not really recovered from the longest run they had done in this program, and now they were doing the exact same thing again. I could not have gone any faster today.
I wanted like hell to quit after the 3.5 mile mark, and it just got worse. Once I got to 5 miles, I felt dead, and could have sworn the last 1.25 miles were not possible at that speed. I made myself tough it out but it took everything I had today. And I wasn’t even going that fast.
There is much improvement to be done still.
INSPIRATIONAL CLIP
David Goggins training in the desert, pushing the human soul to its limits:
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