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RE: January resolutions... Pah
Having just frowned at the idea of MLCMM buying himself a new treadmill when he has the outdoors on his doorstep, it’s just occurred to me that two evenings ago I completed my second track session. This led to the realisation that there is very little difference between running on a static treadmill and running around in circles on a ‘circular treadmill’… except I’m out there freezing my butt off, and MLCMM is in the warm never more than 5 paces away from the beer fridge.
Thursday night was my second evening in the torture chamber. When the email of doom arrived earlier in the day, the schedule didn’t look that bad. But that’s because I didn’t read it properly. Because it didn’t ‘look’ that bad, I decided to run to the club rather than drive. This is a distance of exactly one mile. A mile to warm up and a mile to warm down afterwards… seemed a sensible idea to me, at the time... that particular point in time before I had left the house.
I thought the schedule said we would run for a 1000m, and then have a rest, followed by 600m at a quicker pace with a last 200m sprint before another rest and then repeat. Nope… the bit I miss-read (or indeed had made up)… was the rest bit between the 1000m and the 600m bits. What I came to understand very late in the day, was that we run the whole set without stopping.
THREE, ONE MILE REPS AT 7MIN/MILE PACE!
I very nearly backed out of the last one… but I didn’t, I came over the line last, but I did it.
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January resolutions... Pah
