AM: 5 miles on the TM and rolling and stretching. Quads and front of calves still sore from Sunday. PM: went to Aberdeen for my workout. SOOOOO grateful they agreed to do my workout. It was 10-12 x 1000m, 3:30-3:45 (quite a spread) per rep, 200m jog rest. It would have been ideal to do them Thursday perhaps, but doing them alone would have been so much harder. So coach told me to take it easy and not make any boys cry by beating them in the workout. There were three men who did the workout with me. I knew one well but two were new guys to me. Nice and consistent these men were. One was chinese and was always a bit ahead, sometimes close enough to draft on. The other two were always right around me. I wanted to do the first one at 3:45 and ease my way to 3:38-3:40. Here were the reps: | Rep | Time | Rest | Illuminating commentary | | 1 | 3:45 | 1:20 | I remember 800m split was 3:01 | | 2 | 3:39 | 1:15 | | | 3 | 3:42 | 1:24 | | | 4 | 3:34 | 1:56 | pace got a little giggy, drink of water | | 5 | 3:34 | 1:30 | | | 6 | 3:36 | 1:35 | | | 7 | 3:35 | 1:29 | | | 8 | 3:30 | 2:02 | This is one guys last one so went a bit fast, hard to resist the pull, drink of water in rest | | 9 | 3:35 | 1:31 |
| | 10 | 3:34 | 1:23 | Another guys last one, now just me and tough chinese dude (his name is John, at least his English name is) | | 11 | 3:35 | 1:20 |
| | 12 | 3:28 |
| Nice to let it loose a bit |
3:35 ave Did I mention this workout is over two hours long with warm up/cool down and Mickie and Johnny came with me. They were being little monkeys all over the bleachers, high jump mat, guard rails, you name it. So excited for my 1.5 hour massage I have booked for tomorrow. My legs will love/hate me :D
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