Training Log Archive: Becks

Terrible night's sleep but still dragged myself out to try a new idea this morning (as I wasn't really sleeping anyway), which is some easy running drills first thing on Tuesday to a) get my legs moving after the weights on Monday and b) hopefully wake up my stomach and stop it from being an arse at reps in the evening. Took Fiona L's first running drill and worked my way through it - nice warm up, some high knees work, some balancing and hopping then 10 x 30 secs at 5km pace and 30 seconds jog, then a warm down. I have no idea what 5km pace is so I went at cruising pace which seemed quite nice, and focussed on running style. Legs are achey achey.

Easy cycle in.

Cycle home, I felt tired and traffic lights hated me. Boo to them.

Warm up before intervals - had to miss most of strides to dash to the loo - caught the last couple but it was all for the greater good.

Rest between intervals and the slow run home. Legs very very very dead, but happy.

Whew! Why is it always the sessions you spend most of the afternoon thinking you're not going to do that turn out to be the best ones? Today I finally broke the 2 minute barrier on 600m reps, by trying desperately to hang onto Hannah on the last rep. She was flying today and way ahead, but I ran a consistent set of 8 x 600 all faster than my last previous best of 2.02 aside from one mid way "how am I ever going to keep this up?" lap that quickly turned into a "this is how" lap. Totally went for it on the last one and could barely breathe or feel my legs by the end.

Unfortunately I think Steve will take this as proof that I wasn't squatting enough yesterday! To explain, we're starting to build the speed of reps now, so the rests are back up to 90secs after the shorter endurance based reps before Christmas. Every week we have to try and beat our previous record on at least one rep.

Anyways, times were:

2.02 (1.28), 2.01 (1.28), 2.00 (1.28), 2.02 (1.27), 2.03 (1.27), 2.02 (1.27), 2.02 (1.25), 1.59!!!!!!! Yey!