Well it was certainly tough weather conditions at the start of tonight's session, strong winds, driving heavy rain & cold. Coach Pete said that he was taking pity on us and changing the session from 2000 metre reps. The session that we did actually seemed harder than that, so I'm not sure that it was made easier. We did 5X400m with 100m recovery, followed by 5X600 with 200m recovery, then it should have been 5X400m with 200m recovery and 5X600m with 400m recovery. Due to a misunderstanding I ended up doing reps of 4,6,6,4, rather than 4,6,4,6.
Initially I was running with Steve W, then Mark I joined in after the first 600m. Steve had to stop with a pulled muscle after another couple of reps. In fact by the time we'd finished there were only a couple of others still running, everyone else seemed to have called it a day early. I think that the Otley runners were saving themselves for the Thirsk 10.
After a slowish start, average pace for the whole session was 88 seconds per lap, which was quite respectable considering the conditions & the length of the session. The total of 10k of efforts, 3.6k or recovery & 3.2k warm up/warm down was by far the longest track session we've done so far. The 2000m reps couldn't have been any tougher.
Overall I felt fine, less tired than yesterday & the achilles problem seems to be sorting itself out.
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