Couldn't resist the track again, 5th day in a row. Mid 70ºs and calm winds, pleasant. I haven't done a tempo workout this week, although did some overdistance on Sunday and Monday. Wondering if skipping a tempo workout this week and focusing on speed was the right thing to do. Tempo workouts are brutal and hard to recover from. I'll probably do one next week. But today's task was to work on race pace 200s in spikes, and to try and gauge the correct pace. It went ok but I think my speed was a bit too high for what I can handle in the last 100m.
Hoka trainers on
stretches, drills, 2 x 100, bands
50m - 6.82
Nike Maxfly spikes on
200m - 25.79 (12.48, 13.31)
200m - 26.12 (12.44, 13.68)
Hoka trainers on
400m - 63.31 (31.25, 32.06)
The 200s were not all out, but hard and relaxed, 400m race pace. Considering the rolling start and hand time, add .75 sec to adjust, these were about right, a little fast for my present shape.
The 400m was supposed to be negative split but the first half was too fast, although the second 200 'felt' faster, due to the much higher effort. Goes to show how poor my perception is of my speed. I was pretty tired before the 400m, so running a 63 was ok to end the workout. I do feel like I'm making some gains.
Running fast in spikes definitely is hard on the body, I feel it in my feet and knees afterward. But, I definitely have tolerated these consecutive days on the track pretty well.
Feeling fit at 137.2 lbs after workout.
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