So today was into the final cycle leading up to the World Championships in less than 5 weeks time now. We also have a bit of fun and some more race experience at the English Championships in 2 weeks.
I spoke at length with the boss yesterday after revealing what is required over the coming month. My first look at the new schedule which involves some 42 sessions in 35 days with just 3 days rest took me by surprise and on looking closer I resulted in taking a knee and trying not to be sick in my mouth! The boss said we should talk through some of the sessions and what is required and the purpose of them – I listened intently.
In short the message was this:- “Over the coming weeks we need to do lots of minutes under 2k pace. Because of this you will get longer rest periods but longer rest periods means pushing faster – pushing faster is rather uncomfortable but that’s how it is”.
So with that in mind, today was the start of the speed work round 2. Since the last speed work before Christmas we have reverted back to some slow and steady but kept the odd livener in there and some high 20’s work, so all is not lost however:-
Today I got that horrible acidy burning sensation in the throat towards the end and it stayed with me for a few hours after. My legs went towards the end although the high rate didn’t feel to foreign, the suffocation feeling was there too which all in all added to a fair amount of discomfort. Having said that though I remained as efficient as possible and strong and long as much as I could without slumping to much. Furthermore it is more mental points as any speedy interval stuff is generally pretty nasty.
A new session for me as I have never done this one on 3 min rest (usually 90 secs) and if I am honest I thought I might have been a tad faster but it’s not the splits we are to bothered about – it’s the time spent in the correct training zone, so a tick in the box.
8x500m (3 rest)
ave/500m 1.30.2 rate 34
- 1.29.9
- 1.29.8
- 1.29.7
- 1.30.0
- 1.30.7
- 1.30.8
- 1.30.2
- 1.30.8
