Left work half hour earlier, and stomach felt better today, so I managed to get out around 8PM. The plan was to do 6x800m with equal or near equal time recovery. It was pouring rain and getting dark, but I got to the track and started the workout. It was one of the hardest workouts I had in a long time. I felt slow already on the warmup, 9:24 pace, that's very slow for me on the warmup. The trend just continued on. Plus, the cinder track was very soft from the rain, and my shoes felt like they weighed one pound each (they probably did!). On the last two I was dying big time, and called it quits after 5. I don't know if these were the reasons for slow times, but they were:
| 800m time |
Rest |
Comment |
| 3:30 |
3:03 |
hard, but ok |
| 3:36 |
3:05 |
hard, but still ok |
| 3:45 |
3:38 |
very hard and much slower, decided to take more recovery |
| 3:42 |
3:43 |
dying last 100m, extremely hard |
| 3:41 |
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again dying last 100m, and first lap was 7:45 pace, ouch! Really dying, so decided to stop. |
I haven't run 800s for a long time, maybe I need to build to 7-8 repeats gradually. I also probably should have taken more recovery from the beginning. Oh well, I'm not going to dwell on this workout too much. Hopefully, tomorrow will be better conditions, although the forecast says "rain/wind".
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