Nathan Diehl

This weekend I ran in my second 5K of the summer (also my second 5K in eight years), and although I came in 15th place (out of around 40, i think), I was somewhat disappointed in my time. I actually ran four seconds slower than I did last month, finishing at 23:12.
My time did leave me with an increase in motivation to work harder during my training. I know how to get faster, it just hurts in the process. So this week Isaac and I will kick it up several notches, and we will start training much faster. I am looking forward to getting my leg turnover up, and picking up the training pace. Tonight we’re planning to run six 5-minute repeats, at about 6:45 pace. (this is :45 faster than our current race pace). The first one or two should be pretty easy for us, but those last few are going to be killer…ouch.
But we know we need to run faster, run farther. I like having a goal, and I am anticipating reaching it…

fun stuff!

On another note, an old college teammate of mine, Jeff Nidlinger won the Spencerville 5K, coming sometime around mid-15′s, i think. I didn’t get a chance to talk with Jeff, as he didn’t spend much time standing around, and by the time I was finishing, he was running his cool-down already! But, congratulations to Jeff!
FYI, Jeff was faster than me in college, too! (although I wasn’t nearly this slow then)

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