Out bright and early for a 4km warm up which is the minimum before I can contemplate running quickly at 6.30am. Only Macca this morning so we decided on 8 x Passmore Reserve reps (650m) off a 2 min rest.
Did this session on a Saturday afternoon about 3 weeks ago with Justin (albeit only 6) and was averaging 1:54/1:55's so was pretty crestfallen to see 2:01 on the clock after the first rep. But that must just be the impact of running early doors, as the times came down after that, thank God. Reps went:
2:01, 1:59, 1:58, 1:56, 1:57, 1:56, 1:56, 1:54
In a further warning to Enda, Macca really pushed on rep 4 which brought the time down. Legs were getting a bit wobbly towards the end of each rep after that and - sitting here at lunchtime - they're still feeling pretty fatigued now. So a good session over a good distance. You push almost as hard as a 400m rep but have to hold on and concentrate on form towards the end. Will do me no good for Saturday morning but hopefully one in the bank for State 5000m next Saturday.
5km warmdown for 15km all up.
Read a great oral history of the 1990 Commonwealth 5000m final on Letsrun.com last night. Interesting tips on Andrew Lloyd's training before the race which we should put into practice.
2 comments:
Good to see you boys smashing it out so close to the big race... Hopefully Macca left nothing out there....
Striders Hmb a big race? I think Parkruns rate higher...
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