Monday, 11 March 2013

4 x 2k again - 6 weeks since last round

1st rep:  I misread the target and did 1:51.8 rather than 1:51.1.  After 6 weeks off, trying to correct it in the next ones seems nasty but my heart rate was very low compared to previous.

2nd rep was 1:50.8 with a harder effort all the way and a short 50m sprint.  The highest that the split got to was 1:51.5 but I squeezed through the second km to bring it down.  Average split is now 1:51.3, and I will try to hit that on 3rd rep to leave something for the last dig.

3rd rep was 1:50.7 so average was now 1:51.1 by my oxygen deprived calculation.  Not looking forward to the last but hoping for a sub 1:50 for a new target.  Pleased so far that I am still in the game.  My long (failed and unreported) trying-for-an-hour-of-power must be paying off.   And the cycling.  Target for the last is to keep the split at 1:50 and go from 200 to go.

4th rep: 1:49.2 (7:16.9).  Didn't think I would make it but toughed it out.  Probably the right way to go fast.  Very nasty in the last 500m but that's a 2k.

New target: 1:50.6!

Pretty pleased given the lack of speed work.


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