07-12-2025, 08:18 AM
Last Wednesday morning I started with a solid 20 minute warm-up and then went into 3 x 1K intervals getting my heart rate back down to around 100BPM in between them.
1st 1K @ 4:50 Probably started a bit too quickly and felt a little blown out at the finish.
2nd 1K @ 5:00 Felt a little jaded especially in the quads and hamstrings, fatigued at finish.
3rd 1K @ 4:55 Ran a little better knowing it was the last one, but still felt hard to finish.
I think that I was not entirely recovered from Mondays very hilly 10K. It is the toughest run I have had over the past 5 years, even at the slow pace. These 1K intervals were the acid test to which I was looking forward, as I think there is much that can be learnt from them. Next week I would like to repeat the session with a more moderate longer slow run.
The route I chose for the intervals did have a gentle incline which was obviously the same on the return leg. I will definitely run my next session on a single straight 1k stretch of tar and not an out and back route. The chosen course was also run on a dirt road with patches of fairly thick sand which also took its toll, initially I thought that this would replicate the Parkrun but is in fact tougher underfoot than our Parkrun surface.
Let’s see what next week holds for this session.
1st 1K @ 4:50 Probably started a bit too quickly and felt a little blown out at the finish.
2nd 1K @ 5:00 Felt a little jaded especially in the quads and hamstrings, fatigued at finish.
3rd 1K @ 4:55 Ran a little better knowing it was the last one, but still felt hard to finish.
I think that I was not entirely recovered from Mondays very hilly 10K. It is the toughest run I have had over the past 5 years, even at the slow pace. These 1K intervals were the acid test to which I was looking forward, as I think there is much that can be learnt from them. Next week I would like to repeat the session with a more moderate longer slow run.
The route I chose for the intervals did have a gentle incline which was obviously the same on the return leg. I will definitely run my next session on a single straight 1k stretch of tar and not an out and back route. The chosen course was also run on a dirt road with patches of fairly thick sand which also took its toll, initially I thought that this would replicate the Parkrun but is in fact tougher underfoot than our Parkrun surface.
Let’s see what next week holds for this session.