Workout #2...Track ~~~

I went across to Chevalier College in Bowral to run today's track session on a proper track instead of running in rectangles on the street as I've been doing in the past. To my surprise, the lanes had been marked in a different section of the oval and it's now the shape a track should be and the distances of each lane correct also. Big improvement!  I didn't have to rely on the Garmin vibration to tell me when to stop as I do when using the street as a track.  All I had to do was run in the outside lane and I had a perfect 400m! 

Program :
10-20 min warm-up
200 (200 RI), 400 (400 RI); 600 (400 RI), 800 (400 RI), 800 (400 RI), 600 (400 RI), 400 (400RI), 200m
10 min cool-down.

The grass track was in good shape and the lanes clearly marked after the college athletics carnival last month.  However, I managed to land on what could possibly be the only bit of stinging thistle in the oval and, in bare feet, it felt like treading on a piece of glass.  I managed to avoid it thereafter!  I didn't find the repeats hard at all......maybe I should run faster but I try to stay with the times set out in the program. The McMillan calculator would run these distances quite a bit faster.

400m lane Chev Track.

1.5km warm-up
4 strides

1:05;   2:10;   3:32;   4:39;   4:38;   3:38;   2:12;   1:02

1.5km cool-down
Stretches.

7km today.