After a week with a tummy bug, then a sore throat, I was a bit apprehensive about yesterday's track session. We did 10x800m, in sets of 5, with 1 minute recovery between each rep & 4 minutes between the sets. There is a good group of us running at Carnegie now, with 7 of us attending yesterday.
My first 800 was a bit too enthusiastic in 2:45. The remaining reps in the 1st set varied between 2:50 & 2:54, indicating that I'd certainly set off too quickly. The 2nd set were hard work. I was tiring significantly, but managed to run all of the 5 800s at 2:54, apart from one in 2:56. The overall average for the session was just under 2:53 for each 800m, which is not too bad considering that I wasn't feeling 100% & I'd set off too fast at the start of the session.
Looking back at previous sessions, whilst it's difficult to compare precisely, I seem to be running about 1-2 seconds per lap slower on average than I was in the early part of 2010, but a similar amount faster than a month ago. Overall I think that I'm making steady progress from my illness in the summer, although it's frustrating to be running slower than I know I'm capable of running (especially as some of my training partners have continued to improve.
It will be interesting to see how things go when I start racing regularly again. Having only done one track meeting since early July, I'm certainly rusty. This Sunday is the NVAC 10000m championships. My plan at this stage is to not push it too hard, certainly for the first 7 or 8k, as 25 laps of the track is a long way when I'm not fully fit.
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