A good session... and series!
Monday 19/02/07:
Pefect conditions for an interval session when I hit the streets just before 6am this morning - not a breath of wind, not cool, but not humid either, just a lovely comfortable temperature. Shame it was so dark tho!
Plan called for a 40min run including some short intervals - slightly different sets from the past 3 weeks - no 4mins of hard to start off with... not quite sure why, but I followed the session as it was set down...
Brisk walk warmup: 5mins
Steady paced run: 25mins
Interval session: 2min Hard, 2min Jog, 3min Hard, 90sec Jog, 1min Hard, 1min Jog, 1min Hard
Easy paced run: 5mins (For a total of 41.30mins running - 8kms)
Brisk walk cooldown: 5mins
Did the Jog sections really slowly today so I could give my all to the Hard sections. Really pleased with how I felt this morning - both in speed and form - felt strong and worked especially hard on the last 2 x 1mins of Hard, pumping the arms and lifting the knees.
From there the day was on a downhill spiral really - work is just so busy and as I had a new girl starting today and the one she is replacing has already left, I am doing all of her training... She's really nice and I think she will work out well, but training someone up is very involved and I've found today draining. I've even got a really sore throat and husky voice tonight - I'm sure its from having to talk virtually non-stop today, explaining everything - at least I hope thats all it is! It also means that my own work is piling up without barely getting touched and the rest of the week (at least) will continue in a similar vein... oh well, at least it will take some of the pressure off once she gets on her feet.
Oh and I can't post without mentioning the Black Caps 2nd win to take the Chappell-Hadlee series yesterday... not after all of the bagging of them I've done in recent times! You see I think Steve Fleming found my blog and the boys have been having a read and after seeing how much grief I've been getting (Ewen!) over their dismal recent performances, they've decided to pull finger for my benefit... Good lads. If only they could show this form at World Cup time! Oh and how quick the Aussie media are to attack their own!
Pefect conditions for an interval session when I hit the streets just before 6am this morning - not a breath of wind, not cool, but not humid either, just a lovely comfortable temperature. Shame it was so dark tho!
Plan called for a 40min run including some short intervals - slightly different sets from the past 3 weeks - no 4mins of hard to start off with... not quite sure why, but I followed the session as it was set down...
Brisk walk warmup: 5mins
Steady paced run: 25mins
Interval session: 2min Hard, 2min Jog, 3min Hard, 90sec Jog, 1min Hard, 1min Jog, 1min Hard
Easy paced run: 5mins (For a total of 41.30mins running - 8kms)
Brisk walk cooldown: 5mins
Did the Jog sections really slowly today so I could give my all to the Hard sections. Really pleased with how I felt this morning - both in speed and form - felt strong and worked especially hard on the last 2 x 1mins of Hard, pumping the arms and lifting the knees.
From there the day was on a downhill spiral really - work is just so busy and as I had a new girl starting today and the one she is replacing has already left, I am doing all of her training... She's really nice and I think she will work out well, but training someone up is very involved and I've found today draining. I've even got a really sore throat and husky voice tonight - I'm sure its from having to talk virtually non-stop today, explaining everything - at least I hope thats all it is! It also means that my own work is piling up without barely getting touched and the rest of the week (at least) will continue in a similar vein... oh well, at least it will take some of the pressure off once she gets on her feet.
Oh and I can't post without mentioning the Black Caps 2nd win to take the Chappell-Hadlee series yesterday... not after all of the bagging of them I've done in recent times! You see I think Steve Fleming found my blog and the boys have been having a read and after seeing how much grief I've been getting (Ewen!) over their dismal recent performances, they've decided to pull finger for my benefit... Good lads. If only they could show this form at World Cup time! Oh and how quick the Aussie media are to attack their own!
posted by Vicky @ 2/19/2007 10:16:00 pm
3 Comments:
At Mon Feb 19, 11:58:00 pm,
Ewen said…
I thought we agreed not to mention the cricket? OK then, a half decent run chase from your blokes.
Good interval session!
At Tue Feb 20, 12:01:00 am,
Andrew(ajh) said…
Just took down my Union Jack from my desk at work. If I'd had an NZ flag I would have put that up! Well done to your guys!
At Tue Feb 20, 01:38:00 am,
Anonymous said…
I'm not usually a morning person but when I do find myself running in the mornings I just can't get any speed going. So, as Ewen says, "Good Interval Session".
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