I really do hate running 800m repeats! I can't do them; they're too hard! Besides that, the conditions at Chev track this morning were the worst I can recall: zero degrees, freezing wind and a muddy, slippery, grass track. I cut the session short by doing 4 instead of 6 x 800m. The grass was too cold to run barefoot so my socks very soon became water-logged and my shoes heavily laden with mud. Somewhat handicapped I thought!
Program:
10-20 min warm-up
6x800m @ 6:06m/k
10min cool-down.
2k warm-up + some drills & strides
4 x 800m (each one slower than the other!)
No cool-down; I was still freezing!
6:13m/k (4:57); 6:26m/k (5:03); 6:25m/k (5:04); 6:28m/k (5:13)
After the 4th repeat I'd had enough and took off for home & a hot shower!
You're smarter than me. At track on Monday night I was supposed to do 4 x 600 and 3 x 800. Thicko me did 6 x 600 and only stopped after 2 x 800 because I couldn't work out why everyone else was finishing already... :)
ReplyDeleteOh Gnome, that's so funny! I can imagine how you must have felt; just like I did the day some time ago when I got to the tack and forgot what I had to do! Had to phone home to find out!!
ReplyDeleteYou were a good 800m racer! I never have to phone home. If I forget I just make it up and pretend that's what I had planned all along ;)
ReplyDeleteYou use the past tense "were" correctly, Ewen!
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