First track session in a good while completed.
Happy times for me; always loved track training as it takes me back to my youth, training in a group on Tuesday evenings with Leicester Coritanians AC. There were some seriously good runners back then and I was very much towards the back of the pack - in terms of speed and talent! But not sure any of them are still active now. Anyway, as stated in earlier posts, after 6 months of focused strength training in the gym, I wanted to start the process of transitioning to specific run speed to make use of my strength and conditioning gains. I must say, my expectations are high as I feel so much stronger. Hope I’m not disappointed.
The session went well and my plan to not go full gas was maintained. I did open up a bit on rep 3 of 6 to stretch the legs out and felt smooth and strong. The temptation to maintain that effort was there but I eased back into a more relaxed effort for the remaining reps. The session was 6 x 800m with 3 min RI static/jog, which was perfect for my first session. In my head I had a plan to maintain 3:45 per/k pace for all reps. But I actually busted that pace and felt ok, even as a relaxed effort. Pace for reps was:
3:42, 3:37, 3:28, 3:37, 3:42, 3:43.
Very happy with this session. The legs did feel it towards the end so glad I didn’t go crazy. I will up the intensity gradually as I become more conditioned to this speedy type running. The signs are good that I can run well this year. Not sure about putting times targets out there but I do like the numbers game. I would love to hit a sub-18 min 5k. 17:59 would do! Conditions and course would need to be right; it’s a stretch target. I have the Congleton 10k in a couple of weeks. I’ll run that at tempo and see how close to sub-40 min I get.
Later tumbleweeds
No comments:
Post a Comment