Saturday, April 23, 2011

No Rain On My Parade

I awoke to the sound of rain bouncing off the roof at 9am and wondered how long I'd be sitting in a holding pattern,the answer was two hours.
By 11am the rain had stopped and w/ that I was dressed to run and out the door,rain be damned I would get my 8x1,000m repeats in today.
Over to Temple b4 12pm it was grey and overcast w/ a slight drizzle but having conducted my 20x200m last Tuesday in driving rain this was nothing.
Not surprisingly I had the track to myself and following my 6 lap warm up it was have at it time.

#1 1,000m 1.20-1.25-37-3.22.6.Wasn't thrilled w/ the 1.25 on lap 2 but otherwise I was close to the 1.20-1.20-40-3.20. I was gunning for.
#2 1,000m 1.19-1.25-38-3.22.1.Almost a carbon copy of #1,I'd gotten my pacing almost spot on I just needed to focus more on that second lap.
#3 1,000m 1.22-1.24-36-3.22.0.If nothing I was at least consistent and also ahead of where I was at this point last week.
#4 1,000m 1.23-1.23-38-3.24.0.Although I'd slipped off the 3.20 roll I was on I was pleased w/ the back to back 1.23s.
#5 1,000m 1.26-1.22-36-3.24.1.Not sure where the 1.26 opening lap came from but was glad to respond w/ a 1.22 to keep things on a even par.
#6 1,000m 1.23-1.23-36-3.22.5.Wow a second set of back to back 1.23s as I notched my 4th 3.22 repeat.
#7 1,000m 1.24-1.25-37-3.26.0.Shades of last weeks #7 repeat but well below the 1.27/1.30 splits I produced a week ago.
#8 1,000m 1.21-1.21-34-3.16.2.This was a nice way to finish off the repeats back to back 1.21s and a 34 second closing 200m.

All in all a good workout,much more consistent than last week which tells me I'm getting to grips w/ the new repeat as the numbers back up:
3.33.9-3.30.3-3.19.1-3.24.3-3.21.5-3.30.0-3.36.0-3.19.9
3.22.6-3.22.1-3.22.0-3.24.0-3.24.1-3.22.5-3.26.0-3.16.2
Asides from my consistency today I also felt on the second half of the repeats I was able to lengthen my stride on the final lap,280m on #5,300m on #6,400m on #7 and 410m on #8.
8x1,000m is going to be my bread and butter repeat this summer and I look forward to seeing what I can do w/ it next Saturday.

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