A New Track....

Not a real track but different street location from Radio Road at the school where I've been doing Tuesday's training.  I jogged from the school to Renwick and worked out an 800m stretch on much wider streets that I could run without having to double back after 400m, as I did previously, to do 800m.  It was at that 400m turn that Virtual Partner occasionally used overtake me....but only temporarily!

The new 800m track

The Program : 
10-20 min warm-up + 4 drill/strides
6x800m in 4:39 (5:48m/k)
90sec RI
10 min cool down.

...and this is how it turned out :

2km warm-up + drill/strides
4:38 (5:53m/k);  4:40 (5:50m/k);  4:33 (5:37m/k);  4:25 (5:44m/k);  4:32 (5:44m/k);  4:28 (5:36m/k).
400m RI between (short cut across grass to start)
2km cool-down
Stretches (from RLRF). 


I never find 800m repeats much to my liking and that's because I think they're extremely hard work and the streets aren't perfectly flat of course.   However, I felt OK about the session - especially after #6 -  and was able to do the 800's on target.  Beautiful, warm, sunny day in the Southern Highlands;  hope it was as good everywhere else.

Total today :  8.8km