Hills with my training group. They changed plans, apparentely they’ll keep doing hills for two or three more weeks. Today :
2x3x70m. 3/6min.
I actually planned to do 40 or 60m., they were doing 80m., so I went out on the first rep and mid way decided to go further, I felt in weirdly great form … when I got to 70m. I started feeling the fatigue and decided to cut my reps at that distance instead of going the 80m. with the rest of the group. I guess this type of improptu work isn’t the best option, but it’s certainly 100 times better then nothing. The extreme cold (like 0ºC) during the workout was also a factor in why I decided to do longer reps, I didn’t feel too good in the warmup, so doing shorter more intense hills work didn’t seem like the best option.
I’ve got no idea if this is true, but I felt very well technically, like I was running with great ease and in great running position.
90-95% effort
Monday is a holiday here. I’ll be training with them again for the first training session of next week … depending on what I do that session I’ll decide on what I do on my session. I assume I’ll be doing short speed Wednesday or Thursday … they’ll almost surely be doing something in the int. tempo range on monday. 8x200 3x4x150 or that type of stuff I’d guess.
The slightly bad news is I got another minor quads strain, same thing happened last Saturday during the hills. I thought it had completely healed since I didn’t feel anything on the track on Thursday. Will have to monitor this. My guess is it has to do with lack of quads strength … quads flexibility is good. I’ve always kept doing quads, hamstring and achilles stretches daily throughout all these years doing no activity … for some reason if I don’t stretch those muscles every day I feel rigid like a robot I think that is psychological.