It was back to the track last night on legs that were still tired from Sunday’s workout. All the interval workouts in this training program have taught me you can still have a great track workout on legs that are tired from a long run. That was in my head on my way to the track although I was still feeling doubtful.

The workout was 2 x 1200 (400 recovery), 6x200 (55 recovery), 2x1200 (400 recovery) all at 5K pace or 5:47 pace. What the hell is a 55 meter recovery? How do you accurately measure that on the track? You don’t. I just ran the 200 meter intervals for 40-43 seconds and ran the recovery in 30-40 seconds. 6000 meters at 5K pace with limited recoveries.

The workout when like this:

4:23 (2:01), 4:23 (2:12), 39 (30), 40 (33), 43 (43), 42 (33), 42 (43), 39 (1:57), 4:24 (2:24), 4:25

I would have liked to run the 1200’s in 4:21-22 but a couple seconds isn’t bad. Halfway through the 200’s I was already bargaining my way out of the final two 1200’s. I decided to just keep pushing and whatever happened, happened. The last 1200 felt like I was finishing a 5K. Overall a very tough workout that I am glad is in the books.