Humid with a touch of coolness still left in the air. Somewhat daunting workout this morning largely because I had never done this sort before. Plan was to do about 2 mile warm up, then 6-8 1k repeats (6:16-6:24 pace) with 200m recovery between and then 3 X 200m, followed by about another 2 miles recovery (or whatever I needed to get myself back home). Warmed up with Jenny before she took off on her 3 x 1 mile repeats on her schedule. I was afraid I would be dragging, so I decided to try and and least do the first one a little bit faster, but hopefully not so fast it would wreck the rest of the workout. That seemed to work out pretty well. After the third one I kept on counting in my head, ok, 3 more "mandatory" ones then maybe one more if I could handle it. The repeats I have done in the past have usually had longer recovery intervals between them, e.g. 800m recovery for 1600m repeats. But, I guess that the shorter recovery periods is the key to this workout. Here are the paces for each repeat: 6:13, 6:14, 6:16, 6:20, 6:07, 6:20, 6:17 and then the 3x200: 6:01, 6:01, 5:53 Average pace (overall): 7:43
Then, a little bit over two miles to get myself back home. There are still more interesting workouts on this plan.
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