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Track Workout: Woah Nelly

Posted by MegNH on May 28, 2008 6:53:09 PM

As usual for Wednesday night, I went to the club track workout.  I started out slow, feeling kind of crappy.  But things picked up and I soon felt great and finished strong.  Here's the workout.....

 

I jogged a slow 1.5 miles while Nashua finished up their track meet.  Then stretched and did the following workout.

 

Three sets of:

400 (200 rest)

400 (200 rest)

400 (200 rest)

400 (400 rest)

 

My times fluctuated more than I'd have liked.  But they were consistantly between 1:52-1:56 with a couple 1:48s (one at the beginning and one toward the end).  I didn't keep track of rest times, but I did try to keep them (200s) around 1:15-1:30.  Towards the end, I was the only person doing a recovery jog.  Everyone else was cutting across the field to start the next 400.  I would have been tempted to do the same, but (I think) this is my last speed workout before my goal race.  I wanted to make sure I didn't cheat myself.

 

At home (over a bowl of strawberry shortcake) I calulated my miles for today and Whoa Nelly.  I ran about 6.5 miles tonight.  I had only planned on 4.  Yay me.

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May 29, 2008 3:00 PM davedunham davedunham    says:

Nice workout, glad to hear you are doing the proper rest.  When coaching I found it frustrating when the athletes would not stick to the plan.  The workouts are calculated based on the correct recovery, so you were doing it right.

 

Good for you!