There's something about hard interval workouts, especially those with short rests, that cause tears in the time-space continuum. It's the only thing that can explain it. How else could the last 60 seconds of an interval seem to last 10 minutes, and the one minute recovery last 15 seconds? It's too bad Einstein wasn't a runner or maybe he would have been able to explain this.
Needless to say, I suffered through the eight hours of intervals (the clock says 70 minutes, but see above). Solid run. Going to the well on a repeated basis like that gets pretty tough, but that's what will carry me through those last 2 kms when it's time.
Run: 70 minutes, w/8x5 minutes @ 8.8 mph, 1 minute recovery @ 6.3 mph
I feel your pain. Today was 1 minute, bleeding-eyeballs, intervals for me too.
ReplyDeleteI find the first 10 seconds pass rather quickly, the next 10 less so... and by about 30 seconds in, time itself stands still and perceived duration of the interval drags out to infinity.
Perhaps one could analytically explain this effect with a modification of the Lorentz time dilation from the special theory of relativity.
Perceived time passed = (actual time passed)/sqrt(1-suffering^2)
Where suffering is quantified as a real number in the interval [0,1].
You're putting way more thought into this than I can. Usually I'm reduced to "don't puke on the frame", or if I'm in the pool, "don't start to cry or your goggles with fill with water and that will suck."
ReplyDeleteAhh yes, the salty sweetness of your own tears mixed with the bitterness of the pool chlorine... nothin' like it!
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