Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast for it is a human number ,it's number is six hundred and sixty six"
Number Of The Beast-Iron Maiden
I'n not sure when I came up w/ the 8x300x200x300m repeats,I know I didn't begin using them till Sept 8th 2012 b4 revisting them again last August,September and October of last year.
Like some deranged scientist in lab I felt like this could be the workout that could help me rule the world.....or at the very least be competitive on the track,which more or less the same thing right??
It is a beast of a workout period,it also takes two hours from mile warm up to mile cooldown but it's time well spent if it gets me on the podium at Nationals in Winston-Salem in just under 15 weeks time,the irony of the fact I conducted this repeat on a Saturday the same day as the 800m final was not lost on me!
It looked like I was going to be SOL when I first arrived at Temple's track as there appeared to be "something official" going on....I think it was ENT training....whatever it was it didn't force me to come up w/ an alternate plan which was just as well since at 1.05pm to begin treking across the city to either Roxborough,St Joes,Lower Merion or Haverford would be a pain not to mention time consuming,my other option was to head home,do my 12 long run and return to the track on Sunday to try again w/ the 300x200x300m......surfice to say I waited till the ENT crew got done!!!!
Mile warm up concluded it was have at it time,having not done this repeat since October 19th I wasn't sure what to expect,I felt if I could keep it 55/35/55 I'd be doing ok........
49.3-33.3-52.4
52.1-33.7-51.2
52.7-34.7-52.5
51.5-34.2-53.4
52.8-34.4-52.8
53.3-34.5-52.9
53.7-34.6-53.9
53.2-33.5-54.2
My initial reaction when the 16th and final 300 crept to 54.2 was "son of a bitch!!!" it wasn't till after my mile cool down and a slow walk back to the Cecil B Moore subway stop when I could set and review my previous splits I discovered on my last 8x300x200x300m on Oct 19th some 24 weeks ago I'd logged 6x54 second splits plus one each at 55 and 56 seconds,plus on the 200s I'd logged 5x35 seconds a far cry from todays efforts.
Tempted as I am to make this my "go to" repeat I do think on weeks when I have races in May,June and July I do feel this is one workout that will stay in it's "weekly rotation" along w/ the 4x1 mile repeats if they;re on the rotation on a race week,as sadistic as it may seem I do enjoy the 8x300x200x300m repeats.....even if my calves,hamstrings and glutes may've said otherwise as I gingerly made my way along the City Hall subway platform to catch the #34 trolley home......
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man, that is some suffering ... X 8
No PAIN,NO GAIN,NO GUTS NO GLORY!!!
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