I have fallen a bit behind in writing with the excitement of "non-running activities" in my life. So let me catch you up on last Tuesday's speed session...
I had been skipping out on the previous speed sessions because it was raining (or threatening to rain, or raining the night before) and I'm sure it can't be a surprise to anyone reading this that I'm not a fan of running in the rain. So this was my first session back and what a great session to come back to!
Reps: 500m
Recovery: 500m
I love 500m. I love any reps 1k or less, but the less the better! Less than 1k means I can pour my heart into my running without worrying too much about dying off in the end. Sure, the later reps are likely to kill me, but I try not to think about later reps and instead just focus on this rep.
There was a bit of a hiccup with the goal time set for me which put me at 2.57min/500m. For those who have difficulty working out what this means, multiply that time by 2 for a 1k-pace. Or for those who are glaring at your computer screen in frustration because you hate doing math and since this is a running blog and not a math class why am I setting such high expectations, the answer is 5.54min/km pace.
I'm happy to say that I can go faster than that! The nice part about this hiccup is it gave me free reign to set my own target for the 500m reps.
I ran the reps in the time as follows: 2.18 / 2.14 / 2.18 / 2.14 / 2.17 / 2.16
Surprisingly, I had energy to spare at the end and could have gone on for at least another rep. But I'm very satisfied that all of those times were fairly consistent.
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