Thursday, August 7, 2014

Swings & Roundabouts

In a week where I'm switching things up to begin w/ it should come as no surprize not only was my mid week track workout switched from Tuesday to Wednesday but also the nature of said workout.
The reason for the switch from Tuesday to Wednesday was straightforward enough as my Sister and Brother In Law were flying back to London on Tuesday nite so I figured one last meal together b4 they left wouldn't hurt and frankly the difference between a Tuesday repeat or Wednesday repeat is neither here nor there......the  reason for the change of repeat was slightly more complex!!!!

Having gone w/ 4x1 mile repeats last Tuesday and w/ the mindset that the midweek repeat between then and 5th Avenue Mile would be 4x1 milers I now had the issue of my weekly 2x150m/4x400m/decathletes mile on Saturdays....w/ this Sunday being the Track Pentathlon did I really want to expend that much energy the day b4 my 3,000m,200m,1,500m,100m,800m races????
While the answer to that question was a resounding NO!! the next question was do I want to sacrifice one of my 4x400m.decathlete mile workouts b4 5th Avenue Mile?.....another resounding NO!!! so now what?
Chicken or Beef? Fries or Baked Potato? Window or Isle????? decisions decisions.....

Opted for my 2x150m/4x400m/decathletes mile repeat as the workout I least wanted to pass up so when I arrived at Geasey Field at 3.45pm I knew what lay in store for me,my only issue w/ the switch of days on this workout was the logistics,obviously on a Saturday I'm coming to the track straight from home as oppossed to getting there after work where I've not only been up since 5.10am and put in a full days shift on the dock but also at 4pm compared to 11am the heat can be a  factor.......yada,yada,yada....I was here,i was prepared to give it my all and if at the end of it I fell a few seconds shy of Saturdays splits then so be it.

23.13
23.28
A second down on each 150m from Saturday
22.61
22.83
Now for the 4x400m repeats Saturdays yeilded splits of
65.40-65.93-67.26-67.26
Today went
66.26-67.00-67.24-67.73
Collectivly I was down by 5 seconds from Saturday but for shits and giggles compared to my 4x400m from 12 days ago on my debut I went
66.07-66.71-68.43-69.02
So make of that what you will?

Decathletes Mile
Saturdays splits were
1.25-1.30-1.29-1.15=5.39.0
Todays
1.23-1.28-1.26-1.17=5.34.4

Wow! the 5 seconds I'd lost over the 150s and 400s I clawed back to finish dead even in that respect but obviously 5 seconds quicker on the mile.
Like I said Swings and Roundabouts......botom line another repeat in the books #jobdone

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