Thursday, January 22, 2015

Nolans 1km reps

Well, jumped out the back gate onto Nolans this morning to put the cones down to mark out our 1km loop to be greeted by this low level mist that made the whole area look like a scene out of Sleepy Hollow.  Very romantic it was.  Macca and I contemplated holding hands for the first rep in this dreamlike setting.

But instead we just bashed them out.  First 2 were a struggle - as ever at 6.15am.  We were slowed by the longish wet grass too which made your trainers sodden within seconds.  For that reason I ditched the shoes after 3 reps and ran barefoot in the second half and, as usual, the rep times showed it.

3:16, 3:14, 3:12, 3:09, 3:07, 3:02

Macca would set off early from rep 4 to give me something to chase.  He was averaging about 3:30.  He's the only person I know who runs 1km reps at his 10km race pace.

5km warmdown for 12.5km all up.

4 comments:

Tim said...

Only 6 Tommy H? Thought it were down for 8 on the HuRTS program?

Unknown said...

Thursday is for speed (although you wouldn't believe it off my first couple of reps). Read Pete Magill's article. 8 off a rolling 4 mins makes it no different to a Tuesday session. Too many of the squad are afraid to put themselves into lactic.

Tim said...

Ok , agree - that's why i just did the 6 as well :)

Unknown said...

Wasn't going to risk it this morning Tom. I reckon 4 speed sessions in 9 days might be asking too much of the hammies..... Obvious stuff really.