Today (Monday 11th) I met up with a fellow plodder… one of the leaders, a fast plodder with a lot of races to her name… she is just awesome… slightly insane and crazy but an amazing runner.
Anyway, tonight we met for a sprint session.
It was tough.
The more I work on endurance and distance the worse I seem to get at sprinting.
It makes no sense to me!
But I’m not going to get anywhere unless I keep at it and keep ploughing on!
I managed to work out the ‘lap’ button on my garmin 235 (still need to suss the auto stop)
1. warm up plod for 0.71 miles
2. Sprint 1: 1:53
3. Walk back
4. Sprint 2: 1:52
5. Walk back
6. Sprint 3: 1:42
7. Walk back
8. Sprint 4: 1:41
9. Walk back
10. Sprint 5: 1:34
11. Walk back
12. Sprint 6: 1:37
13. Walk back
14. Sprint 7: 1:34
15. Walk back
16. Sprint 8: 1:33
17. Walk back
18. Plod back to start 0.61 miles
19. Cool down walk to end
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As you can see, my sprints got faster as I got more tired. I don’t understand why or how! The last sprint it had started raining, so I did it with the rain hitting my face and my eyes closed most of the run!
I also discovered these sprints were up a slight elevation. Ouch!
Doing a shorter sprint session tonight, over 200m distance.
Right now though, my legs are goosed and resting 😊
0 to 13.1! 