Yasso repeats, 10 X 800m, goal pace 3:00/800m (3:00 jog between each one)
Started with Jenny this morning, doing one mile easy for the warm up. She was doing an 8 mile @ 7:52 tempo run, her longest one for this plan. We did the first mile of her run together before I started my repeats. Weather didn't feel terrible at first, but it was certainly a little warmer than ideal. I have never done this type of workout before and I've heard mixed things about the value of this workout both as a marathon predictor or a workout, but in any event it certainly was challenging and must have been doing something good for me. Instead of heading to the track decided to just do them on the road. Set my garmin up for 0.5 mile auto laps since that's pretty close to 800m.
First two repeats were slightly faster than goal pace, then the ones after that varied between a couple seconds faster and one or two seconds slower. The plan called for 8-10 repeats, with the idea being that they should all be about the same pace. So, I decided I would do the last two if I was holding my pace and not doing each one slower. Repeats: 2:59, 2:58, 3:02, 3:00, 2:57, 3:01, 3:01, 3:00, 2:58, 3:01 Since the 8th one was right at 3:00, I went ahead and did 9th and 10th ones. I felt good that I was able to do all of these at about the same pace. I have one more set of these on the schedule coming up in a few weeks, so I'll be interested to see how those compare. After the 800's, did 3 X 200m with 1.5 minute rest between, followed by a jog back home.
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