Tonight was my first effort at a speed workout doing 800 meter (half mile) repeats with 2 minutes rest in between. With the early summer heat setting in the evening temperatures were in the mid-90 degree range at the start.
My early warm up mile went well, too well in fact as I did the first mile in 10:14. Following that I did some warm up drills with my training group. After that we did the 800 meter repeats with a 2 minute rest between sessions. I completed 4 of these with times of 3:48, 3:50, 3:45 and 3:54. I think this is a good bit faster than I would have expected to have done a year ago. When I went back in my log to last June the most comparable workout that I could compare this one to was a 2 Mile Time Trial where the first mile was in 8:35 and the second mile was in 9:30.
Although I can tell that I am not fully recovered from the recent Ironman race, it did feel good to be getting back into a real training workout.
There's no telling how sore I will be feeling tomorrow...
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2 comments:
So do I have to call you speedy Richard from now on? That sounds like an awesome workout - great job.
Right!! Great job.
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