Friday, December 09, 2005
Soft
After Wednesdy's heat wave, Thursday was a bit cooler, and by the time I hit the track at Narabeen, a coastal breeze was coming in, making it rather comfortable. The aim of the session was the same as last week - 8x300m in 48 seconds, but rather than last week's walking recoveries, I wanted to do jog recoveries (meaning that the 300m intervals were run in a more lactic state).
The shorter recoveries certainly fixed last week's tendancy to run them too quickly, but by the third rep, I knew that keeping the recoveries under 2 minutes was not qoing to happen. Held out till the fifth rep (48.9/48.1/47.8/47.8/48.8 splits), and then dropped back to a walk recovery. During the 6th interval, I pulled up after 200m (32.6) which I was really angry about as I wasn't hurting, and vowed to complete the last two properly. The 2nd last one was 47.4, and then to make amends, I kicked down the last 200m of the last one, to finish in 43.8 (about 27 seconds for the last 200m).
Although I felt better for pushing myself over the last one, it marked the return of that lovely feeling that accompanies speed work - the desire to chuck. Walked 500m and managed to resist, then jogged 1.2km to cool down.
I am probably being a bit too harsh on myself, but I really wanted to get right through this session. However, as this is only the second lactic session this season (and really only the second since 2002), I'll concede that I still have a while to go before I can get right through sessions like this. I may extend the current 3 week block out another week, to give me two more sessions of this, as the next block features this session run in 45-46 seconds/300m, as well as a session of 3x600m at this pace!
I am planning to run the 1500m at the all-comers meet on the17th, so I will do this session Tuesday next week to allow for a greater recovery.
Discovering that this is also turning into a bit of a Louis blog, which I like as it will be good to look back on all the things he has done in this amazing time. Yesterday's highlights included feeding himself with a fork for the first time and his first experience of The Wiggles. The scary thing was watching all the mums (and the occassional dad) in the audience, singing all the songs word perfect. I have seen my future. Reminds me of a line from "The Panel", about The Wiggles going to Moscow and singing "Wake up Lenin"!
The shorter recoveries certainly fixed last week's tendancy to run them too quickly, but by the third rep, I knew that keeping the recoveries under 2 minutes was not qoing to happen. Held out till the fifth rep (48.9/48.1/47.8/47.8/48.8 splits), and then dropped back to a walk recovery. During the 6th interval, I pulled up after 200m (32.6) which I was really angry about as I wasn't hurting, and vowed to complete the last two properly. The 2nd last one was 47.4, and then to make amends, I kicked down the last 200m of the last one, to finish in 43.8 (about 27 seconds for the last 200m).
Although I felt better for pushing myself over the last one, it marked the return of that lovely feeling that accompanies speed work - the desire to chuck. Walked 500m and managed to resist, then jogged 1.2km to cool down.
I am probably being a bit too harsh on myself, but I really wanted to get right through this session. However, as this is only the second lactic session this season (and really only the second since 2002), I'll concede that I still have a while to go before I can get right through sessions like this. I may extend the current 3 week block out another week, to give me two more sessions of this, as the next block features this session run in 45-46 seconds/300m, as well as a session of 3x600m at this pace!
I am planning to run the 1500m at the all-comers meet on the17th, so I will do this session Tuesday next week to allow for a greater recovery.
Discovering that this is also turning into a bit of a Louis blog, which I like as it will be good to look back on all the things he has done in this amazing time. Yesterday's highlights included feeding himself with a fork for the first time and his first experience of The Wiggles. The scary thing was watching all the mums (and the occassional dad) in the audience, singing all the songs word perfect. I have seen my future. Reminds me of a line from "The Panel", about The Wiggles going to Moscow and singing "Wake up Lenin"!
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All the best for the 17th Sparkie and you're right - you will enjoy going back and reading about Louis and what you did too :-).
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