Today’s workout mirrored last week’s 1200 m intervals. The only differences were that I’m doing more mileage this week, so that meant 4 intervals instead of 3 and a new VDOT, so the pace was faster. It was about 50 degrees this morning, so I donned two long sleeve running shirts, a stocking cap and my gloves. The plan was for 4 x 1200 m at 6:24/mile pace or 1200 m in 4:49 with 600m recovery jogs. After about a mile warmup at easy pace, here’s how it went:
1200 m in 4:38
1200 m in 4:38
1200 m in 4:43
1200 m in 4:45
The fourth one was a struggle. 5 might have been possible, but I was very, very glad I only had to do 4. With warmup and cooldown, I completed a total of 7 miles. Another good quality workout. If you count the race, that’s 4 in a row!
Keep hammering out those quality workouts. Thanks for the link to VDOT. 50 degrees? It is 19 degrees here in Tennessee tomorrow morning.
Thanks for stopping by my blog yesterday. I haven’t read Daniels yet. I bought Glover’s book instead (which was a mistake as it’s really targeting the less sophisticated runner). I’ll be grabbing Daniel’s book next so that I can understand all this VDOT stuff. Several people I know swear by the methodology.
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