Run like the wind

A nice early track session. Me and Mills got out there before the rest of the club, bumping into the ‘fast guys’ as they began their session too. We warmed up together, then they set off on their mad 20x200m sprints and we did our fairly comfortable 8x800m with 200m walk recovery. It felt really good, at at times perhaps a little too comfortable so we upped up the tempo a bit on the last couple of reps. Chatting to one of the guys he explained Yasso 800 sessions, which we were accidentally practicing. You run 800m reps at your target marathon time. So for us, we were aiming for completing the 800m in 3:45mins. Apparently you should use this throughout your training, building up to 10 reps, which should, apparently help you achieve your goal time. Something for next time perhaps…

written by Charky