Heanor Running Club
Speed Work – 12x300m ‘Repeats’
Date: 15th February 2007
Conditions: Cold, Windy
Having missed last weeks training session due to severe snow I was rearing to go for this weeks session. Although a little tired I was well up for it. On arrival at HLC, Rob informed me that, due to many runners taking part in the Tamworth 10k that the session ahead would be steady. This was a fatal error, much similar to the run I did in Langley Mill a few weeks back where I was preparing to decorate my house afterwards and my body gave up on me.
After the one and a half mile warm up to HGIS we were told that we would be doing the 300m horseshoe repeats, however where it differed to last time was that we would be running in our pacing groups and not a s a relay. This meant that you do 6x300 downhill with a 100m recovery run, then 6x300 uphill with the same recovery run.
I made a mistake of not sticking with a pacing group and went out on my own, at my own pace. The first six repeats were ok but during the recovery run at the end of the first six I developed a stitch that never went away. I tried my breathing techniques but the more I tried the worse it got. By repeat three of the second set the pain was unbearable and I almost pulled out. It was one of the elite runners that carried me through the final lap.
In all this was a bad run and I did not enjoy it in the slightest. Thinking it was going to be an easy run had prepared me mentally and physically for an easy run, and it was anything but. I have learnt another lesson however, there are no easy V02Max workout sessions.
Positive: I got through the session when I so nearly jacked it in.
Negative: I had the worst stitch to date from poor mental preparation I believe.
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Brooklyn
"Almost half the race is spent in Brooklyn, where many different neighbourhoods and cultural changes are passed through"
Queens
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Bronx
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