Tonight’s track workout was long and TOUGH. With a storm front bearing down on Nashville, we started everything a few minutes early. Also, even though the temps were slightly lower than the 90 degrees we faced last week, the humidity was NASTY! Here’s a rundown of the night…
- 2-Mile Warmup
- 6 x 100m Stride Outs
- 800m f (300m Recovery)
- 2 x 400m g (200m / 400m Recovery)
- 600m f (300m Recovery)
- 2 x 400m g (200m / 400m Recovery)
- 800m f (300m Recovery)
- Two Laps of Straights & Curves
- 1/2-Mile Cool Down
After our first 800m interval, John broke us up into two groups with Nathan, Sue Anne, and I taking the lead. Both of them were just a hair faster than me tonight, but it was nice to have someone to run with after basically running solo last week. All three of us were struggling with the humidity, especially for me during the 600m interval and the final 800m were my heart rate went above 190.
Even though the humidity was awful, I still managed to crank out fairly consistent splits throughout. My beginning and ending 800m intervals were 2:57 and 2:55 respectively. My four 400m repeats were 1:24, 1:21, 1:21, and 1:21.
The total for the night was 7.2-miles completed with warmup and cool down, and 4.3-miles of this was the actual workout. This is a fairly long workout for our group, and I really felt it at times tonight. However, even though it was a hard one, it was a very good workout. At the end Nathan commented about how this was the type of workout where it would have been easy to quit if you were by yourself. It is really awesome to have the camaraderie and accountability that come from running with our awesome group!
Beast Mode…ON!*
*John said this to me tonight about halfway through the workout with a fist-bump, and I really needed it 🙂