Well technically it’s still Tier 2 training for me as both the track and my home are still in Tier 2 but many athletes now in Tier 3 can’t attend the training. I suppose it serves as a reminder to us all about keeping our 2 metres and wearing our masks (warm-up and warm-down).
We also collect our new club-themed masks. This also reminds me I have a fairly large head, but not too large. Some people find the mask is a bit big, though I find mine a bit small but entirely usable. More comfortable generally but without the wire nose clip it steams up my glasses faster. That’s not big deal as I generally warm up without my glasses when mask wearing to avoid steaming up. When I say “generally” I mean won’t wear a mask when warming up by myself or just with Marcus, but always in a club setting 🙂
Session tonight is a tough one. It’s weird how some sessions look that way, when they are really all tough as long as you get the intensity etc. right. 1x600m, 1x400m, 2x200m with 9, 7 and 4 minutes recover. Targets 600 – 1:36-54 (16-19s / 100), 400 – 60-72s (15-18s/100), 200 – 28-32s (14-16s/100). As usual Marcus aiming for lower end I’m aiming to keep inside the window.
We often run these in reverse, heading towards the long run or in a pyramid with the long run in the middle. Having it at the start is interesting – 600m goes well but saves up a lot of pain for the following runs. Still need a bit of work on the longer distances as miss the larget for first and last runs – 1:58 for 600m, 71 for the 400 and 31 & 34 for the 200s. For the last 200 I was on track at 100 (in fact slightly ahead of the whistle) then ran into 50 metres of treacle.
