Tuesday, February 10, 2009

8 x 800's

It was a cool evening with a little bit of drizzle about as I set off around Hansen's Road for my usual 6.1km warm up (27 mins).

A quick change of shoes and I started my session on the track. The first 800 was to be a slow feeler, then I planned to run all the rest under 2:40 with 200m jog recovery. Splits were as follows:

2:42/2:37/2:37/2:37/2:37/2:38/2:35/2:37

Happy enough with that and despite the cool conditions it was quite windy so it was hard effort for 200m and coast for 200m. The rain got heavier throughout and by the time I finished it was bucketing down. I did 4 laps warm-down then headed for shelter as the lightning was getting bad.

All up 15.5km. This was a tough session with the short recovery and to be honest, I couldn't have done these reps any quicker.

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