Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Long Intervals

Plan: 8x 1.6km @ Race pace, 30sec rest intervals
Execution: Strangely given only about an hour, so impossible to finish 12.6km (at least for me)

Was totally sluggish throughout the training. Right from the very first set, go. Struggled (and failed) to maintain 5min pace, and cleared each set in >8min. :( And exceeded rest intervals. Even then, at that slower pace, the run clearly felt a lot tougher than last week. I was breathing much harder too, when it should be a nice zoned-out kind of run. Sigh....

Managed 7 sets:
1- 8:12min (RI 33sec)
2- 8:07 (RI 35s)
3- 8:14 (RI 40s!)
4- 8:11 (RI 41s)
5- 8:02 (RI 41s) - pacing with 3 other guys
6- 8:08 (RI 45s!!)
7- 8:05....
Died....

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