Lactate Threshold Training

[kitkat1]

@pindaman

Training has been steady and my activity on this forum has been really reduced. As most of the needs are now found in my 400 M training Bible.
I am still working with a modified template that KK shared here already for some years, but now i get older my body doesn’t respond as good (easily injured)
For this year in the winter I focussed mainly on acc work, runs up to 150m, aerobic tempo, body weight circuits to prevent injury. Untill now it seems to work, although I do have my tight hamstrings and a chronic calf problem that’s controllable at the moment.
recovery is massages and using my LLLT device and allot of showers(warm and sometimes contrast).

I have started getting into the transition after doing a 4 week GPP from the KK template. That went okay.
Now I have some trouble into the SPP because speed is going up a bit rapidly. I changed the template to build up to 300m(+150) runs and the 5x200m with 2’ breaks in an alternative way and hoping it will keep me injury free.

I still compare my training times with my best year(2006 setting pb’s in 100/10.80 to 400/48.30). some traning results are:
2x4x150 walk/jog/walk -15’ av 19.4(set 1)-av 19.0(set2) (late GPP)
300+150 34.8-19.6

This year i was really missing speed in the frst 4 weeks of the GPP, and now getting into SPP times are going down more rapidly than anticipated. My questionis what to do.
Last week i ran a 250-200-180-150 in 31.5-24.6-22.2-18.2 with a 10~12 min break after a 4x80
This week: 250-200 in 30.5-23.8 I had planned to do more runs, but because of the big difference in time i thought it would be best to stop the session to prevent injury. I did stop because in the past I would have run the whole programm and than be destoyed for multiple days…or get injured.

So is this wise to do? I am still in doubt about that. On the one hand I think is was good, to stop so my body can adapt to this step forward. On the other hand I think, I could have run on of my best training runs ever yesterday(but still knowing there was a good change of getting injured).
In the end I think it was a good thing to end the session. What are your thoughts

You did exactly the correct thing. As Charlie always said: “If in doubt, leave it out. When you think you can do one more rep, you have already done one too many.”
Your progress (speed) will continue to come out over the course of your transition into competition. BUt you don’t train to train. You need to make it to the racing track, so steady as she does in training will win the race (or does that only apply to turtles?)