Intervals- 8 x 400m.

TUESDAY 17/5/05, 12.30PM, 9K, WEEK TO DATE 15K, 7 HOURS SLEEP

 

Nominally I would have been running with Vat this morning at some stupid hour but I elected to get some more sleep, and ran up to Dunbar Field at lunch for some 400s on the track. My soleus was a consideration too- I wanted to spare it any more commuting with a backpack, which I would have had to do if I ran at Rotary. I decided to do 8 x 400, but (as with last Tuesday's session) use a 50 second jogging recovery, not the 60 second standing recovery I usually use in this session.

 

2.7K warm up in 12.42 (4.42 pace). Felt wanky but seemed to be moving all right.

 

Took off shoes....

 

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77 (new 400m PB by one second)

 

Put shoes back on, 2.7K back to the office, very ugly, 13.08 (4.52 pace).

 

My legs are a bit tired, but at an endocrinal level I seem to be fine, given the steady progressiont hrough the session. Could feel the soleus a bit, but not too bad.

 

About 16 degrees and very humid- steady rain most of the morning, but I only got a couple of brief showers during my workout. Started raining steadily again after I finished.