After two weeks of racing on top of the weekend I skipped training I hadn't been on a track for repeats since Sunday Jan 8th when I did 4x1 mile repeats so it was about high time I got back on the oval this morning to begin the second phase of training for Indoor Nationals in Bloomington in just over five weeks time.
As I stated in my blog yesterday I feel the one area I'm lacking right now is speed so hopefully the next five weeks will see me work on that twice a week be it a race and an interval session or two repeats,to jump start the process I went w/ something new today,16x200m w/ a 200m recovery jog.
Why 16x200?simple,15 200m laps in an indoor 3,000m this would be a close simulation of that conditions were sunny and mild when I arrived at Temple around 11.20am,mile warm up then stripped down to my running tights and half zip fleece to have at it.
31.63
33.79
33.53
32.63
34.09
32.24
34.26
33.08
33.67
32.79
33.07
33.25
33.71
33.81
32.53
32.22
Prior to the repeat I set 36.00 as my absolute slowest target,mid way through the repeat I bumped that up to 35.00 and post repeat I may need to adjust it to 34.00 for the next time I conduct this repeat which I plan to revisit a few more times b4 Nationals.
Overall I was pleased w/ the level of consistency throughout especially #8 thro #16.
All in all a good week another 50 miles under my belt and some much needed speed work.
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