In the midst of Monday’s speed intervals, these were the thoughts formulating in my head:
800 metres? At this pace? Are you freaking kidding me?
Holy freaking crud monkey, I can’t breathe!
I think I’m having a heart attack!
Ohmygawd, alert the authorities, I think Coach NZ is trying to kill me!
Why did I not pack along water???
This week’s speed training had me running 4 sets of 400 metres fast/90 seconds easy/800 metres fast/90 seconds easy and repeat at a 4:30 min/km pace. For those of you who’ve been following me for awhile, you know that while I very much want to be faster in my running, I absolutely loathe speed training. And so, when I saw 800 metres on the schedule, I had serious thoughts of skipping it. But then, that stupid little smug angel on my shoulder reminded me of just how guilty I’d feel if I didn’t put the effort in. Damn her!
And so, I ran, I ran hard, and all those aforementioned thoughts, I believed. At the time, whilst desperately gasping for oxygen, I thought for sure a few of those intervals were going to break meโฆ probably didn’t help that somehow I started my first interval with a double 800 INSTEAD of a 400/800!!! What the???
MONDAY’S SPEED TRAINING
- 5 a.m. BG before: 6.9
- Temp. basal: none
- Carbs: granola bar (14g) with bolus
- Distance: 9.12 km
- Time: 55:22
- Average interval pace: 4:45 min/km
- 6:30 a.m. BG after: 8.4
And following that run, I did something I NEVER do. I looked ahead in my program to see what next week’s plan was. BIG MISTAKE!!! (I like to live in a world of blissful ignorance!) If I thought this week’s intervals were bad, they ain’t nothing compared to next week’s hell โย ALL 800s!!!
And so, dear readers, if you notice my blog has all of sudden fallen off the map, you can safely assume I’m 8 feet under ๐
Eeek…speed training is hard! Hope the 800s went well!