Tuesday Night Track

The Workout:
After warm-up, run 8 x 200 with a 100 recovery jog or walk.
Effort: Zone 4.

I’ve been trying to arrive by 6 to get a short workout in before anyone arrives. Tonight that was impossible. I had a meeting at the office from 5 – 5:45pm so I was a little pressed to get to the track by 7pm. ( Deer Park to Oak Ridge )

We had about 50 runners make training. This is a big group. I didn’t time any of the intervals* as I didn’t want to put any time pressure on anyone. The goal was to run the repeats at a level pace at more or less a 5K race pace. Since many are new to running intervals the pace description was run faster than your Saturday workout pace.

We split into two groups. Group one was the runners that arrived before 7pm and were warmed up and ready to start. Group two was the runners that arrived at or shortly after 7 that needed to warm up and then start. There was an open house at the school so parking was at a premium, which delayed a few getting to the track.

I did run a few of the intervals with different people….Coach Liz from the marathon red group, then Karen from the marathon yellow group and Blogger TIR team (she might have mentioned a bigfoot sighting), and then with a few from the half marathon green group. I logged my half mile for the night.

The whole group did great.

Next week we’ll merge Kim’s tri-group who has been at a different location the last two weeks. This is going to be a lot of fun.

* When I had the opportunity to visit with Arthur Lydiard the evening he spoke at the Sunmart Texas Trail Endurance Run pasta dinner he mentioned that when he had his runners do intervals he didn’t time them. I thought that was a very interesting comment.