I Ran my intervals yesterday and was a little perplexed as I just don’t seem to be able to get any real consistency. The fluctuation in times is something that I am finding difficult to explain.
1st K @ 4:42 - 155 BPM Felt okay kept good form all the way through. Fairly consistent pace.
2nd K @ 5:02 – 155 BPM My average heart rate tells nothing about this run. I started reasonably as I had finished the 1st K. At around 400m I started flagging and was struggling to keep my shape, gasping for air and had to hang tough to get through the segment. I finished as quickly as I could and was heaving wanting to throw up across the line. It took 3 minutes to get my HR back down to where I felt reasonably comfortable to proceed with the final K.
3rd K @ 4:53 – 155 BPM I started the final segment conservatively given the finish of the previous k. I tried desperately to keep upright with a good posture bur felt quite knackered through to around 700M. I forced myself to push through the final 300m just to get under 5 minutes.
There seemed to have been a relative improvement week to week and then this fall off. Coupled with this is the strange anomaly where my 2nd run is always quite a bit slower than the 1st or 3rd. I appreciate that if I’m running the 1st k too hard then I am going to obviously suffer on the 2nd K, that’s logical. The thing is that I feel that the 1st km is almost always within my grasp, I recover quickly and feel okay. I am normally reasonably good until the halfway mark through the 2nd K when the wheels come off. The final Km is normally a struggle but as I know it’s the last one psychologically I can find the extra gear required to finish well.
I think I’m going to attempt this session on the track next week, as the road I run on does have a slight decline at the finish of the 1st and 3rd K with and incline on the start of the 2nd KM. it is really not terribly significant but I think worth the experiment to get on the track to try. Besides which I haven’t run on a track in about 10 years, so it will be good to get back there.
1st K @ 4:42 - 155 BPM Felt okay kept good form all the way through. Fairly consistent pace.
2nd K @ 5:02 – 155 BPM My average heart rate tells nothing about this run. I started reasonably as I had finished the 1st K. At around 400m I started flagging and was struggling to keep my shape, gasping for air and had to hang tough to get through the segment. I finished as quickly as I could and was heaving wanting to throw up across the line. It took 3 minutes to get my HR back down to where I felt reasonably comfortable to proceed with the final K.
3rd K @ 4:53 – 155 BPM I started the final segment conservatively given the finish of the previous k. I tried desperately to keep upright with a good posture bur felt quite knackered through to around 700M. I forced myself to push through the final 300m just to get under 5 minutes.
There seemed to have been a relative improvement week to week and then this fall off. Coupled with this is the strange anomaly where my 2nd run is always quite a bit slower than the 1st or 3rd. I appreciate that if I’m running the 1st k too hard then I am going to obviously suffer on the 2nd K, that’s logical. The thing is that I feel that the 1st km is almost always within my grasp, I recover quickly and feel okay. I am normally reasonably good until the halfway mark through the 2nd K when the wheels come off. The final Km is normally a struggle but as I know it’s the last one psychologically I can find the extra gear required to finish well.
I think I’m going to attempt this session on the track next week, as the road I run on does have a slight decline at the finish of the 1st and 3rd K with and incline on the start of the 2nd KM. it is really not terribly significant but I think worth the experiment to get on the track to try. Besides which I haven’t run on a track in about 10 years, so it will be good to get back there.