Did my last interval workout before Indy. This makes a whopping "3". I had planned on doing a couple more interval workouts, but they were canceled either due to health or to weather. So it goes. The plan today was 8x1000m @ CV pace, with 200m recovery (about 1 minute). My goal pace was to run 75s/lap, or 74s/lap if I was feeling good. This comes out to 3:05-3:08 range. I wore flats, and jogged out from my house to Skyview track (about one mile), and started the interval session immediately (trying to beat the rain). | Interval | Split | | 1 | 3:09 | | 2 | 3:07 | | 3 | 3:05 | | 4 | 3:06 | | 5 | 3:05 | | 6 | 3:06 | | 7 | 3:06 | | 8 | 3:01 |
It took me a couple intervals to get fully warmed up and into the workout, but once I settled in, 74s/lap felt pretty smooth. Stayed consistent, except for the last lap of the final interval. Had a headwind on the back curve and the front-stretch, and a tailwind on the inverse. The wind got worse as the workout went on, due to weather approaching. Got a few snow pellets on me, but it held off for the most part. I was especially pleased with my recoveries. On the first couple intervals I actually had to force myself to slow down in order to give a full minute on the 200m jog. And usually my recoveries get longer and longer for this kind of workout, but I stuck around 60s for each one to the end. Felt like I could have kept going with a few more. So that's all good. Managed to salvage decent mileage this week, despite still recovering from illness, plus terrible weather. Next week I just have a short tempo scheduled on Tuesday, and the rest is easy.
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