It's a start, nothing to write home about, but if I start my program it means I'm going somewhere, albeit painfully slow, but if I don't start, it means I'm not going anywhere...and that's not a good place to be!
Again, I'm using the Furman FIRST half marathon program that I'm used to and having optimistically altered my 5km time from 31 minutes to 40 minutes and using FIRST times/paces based on that, it meant that today's 400m repeats should each take 3:03 minutes.
Program:
10-20 min warm up
12x400m (90sec RI)
10 min cool down.
I drove across to Chevalier College track in Bowral...not a soul anywhere. Good, no one to observe my comeback on the track since April, 2013! Luckily also, a narrow lane, just over 200m, had been mowed. Someone must have known I would return!
1.5km warm up
4 strides and drills
6 x 400m.....finished with 6 not 12, before getting too tired! And it was so hot!
2:50; 2:54; 2:51; 2:52; 2:53; 2:47
1.5km cool-down
Instead of 90 sec recovery intervals, I walked around the 200m track because it took longer!
As I said, it's at least a start and surely I can't get any slower than those 400ms!!
For Today: 5.4km
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