AM: 8.1k at 4:45 ave pace PM: Track workout, 10 x 800m on the 4 min, so just 1:20 rest between. Turning the screw on the workout I did a couple of weeks ago where we took off on the 5 minutes and I averaged 2:39.4. Today though it was persistently raining, I even did half my warm up in a jacket but then got too hot-- I was soggy by the time the workout started. I got a long warm up since Ali was not working out (did Macau Marathon this weekend) and I was going to do the workout with some fast dudes and they weren't ready by 7pm. I warmed up 6.5k, pretty agitated and stressed to start (stressed because of the workout, I forgot my fast shoes, but then Ali lent me some flats, stressed because my Coach is leaving in 12 days, but who is counting?). Anyway, here's how the workout went: | | Time | Split | | | 1 | 2:42 | 77,84 | Boys went out way fast, and I followed suit, felt worst in this one | | 2 | 2:39 | 78,81 | 78 felt much better than 77, but coach said I looked pretty awful in the first two reps (he told me this at the end of the workout, not like "michelle! you look awful!" | | 3 | 2:39 | | | | 4 | 2:39 | | | | 5 | 2:39 | | Coach gave us a slow lap jog, probably 4 minutes, I think specifically so I could have a bathroom break, I didn't say I needed one but I so did, and he knows me by now | | 6 | 2:38 | | | | 7 | 2:39 | | some of the boys are losing steam and I am getting closer to them | | 8 | 2:38 | | one boy drops out of workout | | 9 | 2:39 | | | | 10 | 2:32 | | I tell orange shirt boy to watch out or I'd get him. I thought, "that's a sure way of helping motivate him to not let me get him" but in the second lap he kept looking over his shoulder for me, and let me catch him at 150m then we both sprinted to the finish. I think he wanted to help me. | | | 2:38.4 ave pace | | |
So despite the long break in the middle, coach says this is a much more impressive workout than the other 800m workout, esp because of the rain and how yucky I looked at the beginning. With such short rest, there was no jogging, I just walked and told myself to get my breathing in control and during the 800s I tried to be relaxed and smooth and did no sprinting to the finish (except the last one, of course). Long cool down with Coach, 6.5k, 4:50 pace Thanks Ali for letting me borrow your shoes. They are a bit magical :D
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