Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Another Level ~~~~~

My mood was cheerful this morning, as it usually is on a track day because I like this kind of training, I think mainly because its pain is short lived!  I cheerfully decided then to upgrade the 5km time of 40 minutes I've been using for track and tempo, to 35 minutes!  Way, way out of my comfort zone I was to find out!

The Program, therefore, was :

6 x 800m in 5:22
1:30 min. RI between each.

2km warm-up incl. 4 drills with strides

6 x 800m   :   5:23 (80-92% of Max. HR);      5:18 (76-89%);      5:13 (78-87%);
                       5:15 (81-89%);                           5:20 (82-92%);      5:22 (83-91%).

...and I think that was a damned good effort! 
   I'll stay with 35min 5km time until I do a Park Run in Canberra at the end of this month or early April and get an accurate time.  I'm tipping it'll be over 35 minutes because my lungs were bursting at this pace just over 800m!!  Finished with 1km walking cool-down + stretches.

For today 7.8km

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