Evening workout in the neighborhood. One mile warmup, then 6X2 min on 1 min off. Finished up with mile and a half back to the house. Good chat with Trav this evening about the visiting runners from the UK that are working out in Tallahassee for a month. Once a week they are hitting the track at Trav's school to take advantage of the trails immediately adjacent - very cool. 2008 Olympic 1500 meter guy/miler Andy Baddeley and steeple/5K guy Mark Draper are in town along with a few runners from Zap Fitness out of North Carolina. Trav watched their workout Tues morning when they did two sets of 6 laps followed by 4X200 at mile race pace. Each of the sets of 6 laps were generally neg split from 70 to 66 and then the 200s were 30, 30, 29, 28 for the first set and 28, 28, 28, 26 for the second... 3:47 simulated mile. Baddeley's PR is 3:49. Trav said Draper bailed out on the 5th lap of the second set looking pretty rough. He got to chat with them quite a bit and looks forward to seeing them again next week. |