It’s been six weeks since my last time on the track, and seven weeks since I last did 800m repeats. Yesterday morning, I joined Billy in the early morning at Kezar once more, and put in six 800m pieces, with 400m jogging between each one (plenty of rest).
We didn’t go after it early…the first few were conversational, literally. I pushed on the penultimate one, for the second lap. Then, after a shorter rest than before, I tackled the last one on my own.
In order…
3:15
3:13
3:10
3:06
2:55
2:47
The speed work is important to me right now, since my next scheduled race is Thanksgiving morning, when I do a one mile race, followed 30 minutes later by a 5K.
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1 John Rodkin // Nov 2, 2006 at 3:38 pm
Holy *(~!@ John! 2:47 on your last of 6 800’s with only 400m of rest?! When I was running the 800 competitively in college, I’m not sure I was doing that.
Two years ago, coaching a high school track team, I ran their ladder workouts 400 – 600 – 800 – 600 – 400 and think I barely broke 80 on the 400s. My mile time had ballooned from high 4’s to low 6’s
I seem to be getting old faster than you.
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