Weather - 67 degrees, raining. Had one of my better workouts today, doing a track session with 2nd Wind. The group was doing 4 X 1200m and 4 X 200m. The total time for each 1200m was 8 minutes, but if I ran a 5 minute 1200m, then 3 minutes rest seemed too much. Matt suggested I do 4 X 1600m, that seemed more challenging, so I gave it a try. I realized before starting that I had never done 1 mile intervals, so I had no idea how it would go. I decided on a slightly slower than 5K pace, so somewhere between 6:40-6:50 seemed reasonable. Just before lining up it started to rain, but since it was warm it felt pretty good. We did 4 x 100M accelerations and then got to it :
1) 6:26 - The time seemed fast, but the pace felt right. 2) 6:32 - feeling good. 3) 6:30 - still feeling good 4) 6:21 - a little leg weary at the end, but recovered nicely before starting the 200's. The 4 x 200M had a long 400M rest, so I was fresh for each one :
1) 40 seconds 2) 39 3) 39 4) 36 - my first 36 second 200, was in control the whole way. Did a half mile cool down, did not feel exhausted or beat, just pleasantly spent. What I was most pleased about is I had only a 90 second jogging recovery between miles, and it was enough, I started each one fresh and with a low heart rate.
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