If You Can't Stand The Heat.......

This time last year I was on the DL w/ my achilles so it's two years since I've had to conduct a repeat session on the track in 90 degrees......you know what they say about riding a bike you never forget........
No great surprise to find Geasey Field practically deserted when I arrived at 4pm a few brave and hardy souls there{foolhardy more like it!!!!} so having achived my first objective of getting access to the track the second object was to get done my repeats ASAP b4 melting......

As luck would have it I had 6x600m on tap which given the heat was a stroke of luck......but not heat stroke I hope!!!
Also in my favour was the fact that having fluffed my lines on Saturday over 5x1,000m I had an instant opportunity to correct things today rather than twist in the breeze till Saturday
Last time out over 6x600m on May 20th I went:
1.12-36=1.48.6
1.14-35=1.49.5
1.11-37=1.48.3
1.16-37=1.53.5
1.17-39=1.56.3
1.18-36=1.55.3
A session remembered for a second half colapse and the intrusion of Mrsbitchcuntwhore and Lilbitchcuntwhore on the inside lane at Roxborough.....thankfully they would not be at play today here at Temple.
Mile warm up taken care of it was one last swig from the water bottle and have at it time

#1 600m
1.11-35=1.46.4
As is my won't a brisk opener,I would have to hope that didn't come back to bite me in the arse over the closing 600s

#2 600m
1.14-35=1.49.1
Guilty of "going to sleep" around the bottom turn between 200m and 300m b4 a wake up call at 400m.

#3 600m
1.15-33=1.48.9
Thanks to Twiddle Dum and Twiddle Dumber who thought walking around the track in lane 1 was a bright idea I had to swing wide into lane 3 at 400m which may explain the closing 200m in 33 seconds.....

#4 600m
1.16-34=1.50.6
And there went the sub 1.50s,hey ho at this point I just wanted to be sure I had the chops for the last two repeats.

#5 600m
1.16-35=1.51.7
1.16 is where you wished your opening 1.11 had beena 1.13 but the "toothpaste is out of the tube now" deal w/ it!

#6 600m
1.18-34=1.52.1
Seldom does anything good come from an opening 400m in 1.18 but it was all I had left and like the great Carl Lewis famously once said ''I just wanted to know I left it all out there on the track" I could say that I did today

A 13 second improvement on my May 20th effort but b4 anyone cries foul that I went into the tank over the final three 600s that day here's my previous set of 6x600m repeats from April 22nd:
1.11-37=1.48.1
1.13-37-1.50.1
1.14-35=1.49.7
1.16-36=1.52.4
1.16-35=1.51.4
1.16-35=1.51.4
 And here's todays
1.11-35=1.46.4
1.14-35=1.49.1
1.15-33=1.48.9
1.16-34=1.50.6
1.16-35=1.51.7
1.18-34=1.52.1
5 seconds faster and while I don't recall conditions on April 22nd I know damn well it wasn't 90 degrees!!!
Last 6x600m b4 Nationals so I've got to be pleased w/ that,yes there's room for improvement there always is but go back to my first set of 6x600s on April 1st of
1.50.5
1.50.5
1.52.2
1.54.3
1.54.9
1.54.5
That's 18 seconds let's see if it's good enough to get on the podium in 4 weeks time?