Again today it was cold, but instead of a night run on my own today there were 5 of us all keen to take part in Joe’s interval training Tuesday.
The plan for the interval training was the same as last week, 1 mile warm up, 2 miles of intervals and the final mile at a slow pace. The pace of the intervals is supposed to be at your 5km race pace, now this presents a couple of problems, firstly none of us actually know what our 5km race pace is and secondly if you put a bunch of guys together and say go hard then everyone goes harder!
I will be first to admit that today was not one of my better days, I struggled with the fast intervals and was also feeling a slight tightness in the top of my left hamstring (convenient I hear people cry, but hey what you gonna do!). Looking at my splits, as I still haven’t read the Garmin manual on how to use the interval training setting, I can actually see that I was going faster than last week at the peaks.
However, I did struggle to keep up the pace set by Joe & Tony (there you go RedTape, I said it son, I struggled!!!) although I am not sure on the last interval anyone saw which way Joe went, he just seemed to engage rocket power and was gone!
I think interval training is something I am going to try and do at least once a week as I actually quite enjoy it and it will give me something different to do.
Tomorrow I am planning another night run on my own so it should be a gentle trot, hopefully it won’t be so cold.
Miles Today: 4.13 (6.64km)
Miles Completed: 411.77 (662.68km)
Miles To Go: 683.23 (1099.52km)
Shoes: Saucony Jazz 13