Notes
Over/Unders
Strides, 800 at T, 2x1600 (68/75 alternating), 2x 1200 (34/75 alternating), 800 rest b/w reps
That was a grind. Shout out to the masters athlete ripping 200s and cheering me on. He definitely helped me stay in it, as well as Everyday Hustle stuck in my head as repped these out.
Thanks be to God for the good workout. I was really happy with how this turned out. Stomach didn't feel the greatest in the warm-up but during the workout it was fine until basically right when I finished the last rep. Maybe too much jelly or too much olive oil in the pan when making eggs this morning, or just the anticipation of the big workout. Either way I'm just thankful it didn't affect my reps. Breathing wasn't the greatest, the humidity was high with the fog covering the whole mountain range which probably caused it. It wasn't terrible but it wasn't ideal. Hammy and knee felt great though. I think I came into the first rep thinking it would be easier than it ended up feeling because after the first rep my mind immediately went to "fuck this, this is hard, maybe my body isn't up for it" but I quickly snapped out of it and realized that there's no way to not feel like shit when you're doing a hard workout that basically simulates being as inefficient in a race as you possibly could. I decided though after the 2nd rep to switch to 1200 reps with the unders being just 200 because my body wasn't starting to reel and I was going to have to go to the well to stay on pace if I did a full 1600 on rep 3. (I chose to break up the reps than you put in TPs because running altitude 1500 pace for 1600m of a 3200 rep while also trying to run 75s in between would've been pretty much impossible to not make it an all out effort). And I think the 1200s ended up being pretty perfect because after walking a section of the 800m jog rest I was able to settle in and put together a great 3rd rep, and then I was working for the 4th rep and was pretty spent after but wasn't in the well (but I was definitely close).
All in all I hit my splits really well for how tough adjusting paces so dramatically like that is mid-rep, and I got in quite a confidence boosting session that should pay off really well physiologically for the upcoming races.