Ladies, Hommes, at the track
Yesterday was a good running day. At lunch, Justin and I did our typical 5 mile Bent Rd shake-out loop with 3 sets of abdominals in the fitness center afterwards.
Last night was "how many people can circle the track night" at Reggie Lewis with moi, Justin, and about 60 of my closest training partners. What a zoo! A couple more people and we will have a mess. There are serious crowd control problems with all the various clubs and schools trying to workout at one time. Here is the key to working out with a lot of people on the track. Start your interval with a rolling start, keep moving when you are in lane one, stay single file, and don't move out of lane 1 until your interval is over. That is all you have to know. No one minds going around a person or a line of people. When you have to hit lane 3 or 4 to get around a group doing a bunched up tempo run it is a problem. You do not have to run right off the leader's shoulder. It is a workout, just start your watch when you cross the start and stop it when you are finished. If you stay directly behind the person in front of you, your times will be identical. Seems simple, no?
End rant
Felt very good on the track. The workout was 4 x 1200m at 3:24 (3:24, 3:25, 3:24, 3:25) with 3.5 min rest between. We took an active jog 5 min break after the 1200 set. Went on to 4 x 300m at 46 (45, 46, 47, 45) with 90 secs between intervals. The times were off a bit because the whole time we had to dodge, duck, dip, dive, dodge all around the track. All the movement makes the effort a couple of seconds faster than what we actually ran.
Today is a light day with some weight lifting.
Which way to the beach?