I did my second modified Yasso training, 10 800m repeats with 2:30 recover. These are my splits: 3:01, 3:01, 3:04, 3:03, 3:03, 3:05, 3:05, 3:05, 3:06, 3:01. As I said last week this is not a "test" but more like a standard training run using a speed between my 5k and 10k time. Compared to last week it was much harder because I decided to stay between 3:00 and 3:05 and cut my recover to 2:30. I ended up, on average, 5 seconds faster than last time but it was a lot more work. Last time I wanted to see where I was, today I wanted to see if I could push a faster pace and to be able to keep pushin at the end when the legs are slowing down (I desperately need this kind of mental training). This is one of my greatest problem, when everything is fine I am fine, when things are becoming difficult I usually mentally give up and enter in a conservative pace even if I can still push a faster pace. Overall I was very happy about the overall result, not giving up during the last five repeats in spite of some slow down at the end, and in general going home with a 10 miler for the day.
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