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400s Workout.... With Robert!?!

March 30, 2011 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: 35 Partly Cloudy/Windy

Comments:
WU: Veale to NRV via Little Italy
13x400 goal of 76 :30 rest for first half, :45 after that, held 75-76s, last one 69, with Robert for 6-7ish
CD: 3 laps on track (alone), NRV to Veale (with Robert), Veale to MLK to NRV to Veale (alone)

This went about as well as I could have reasonably hoped for. For the first six, I took the outside and ran next to Robert with :30 rest between each. When he started to struggle, Coach increased our rest to :45 and the next 3-4 felt really easy. I started to get tired around 10-11ish but not too terribly that I had any trouble finishing it up. We had the wind in our face down the homestretch and that part was much harder than the rest of each interval. I tried to finish the last 400 hard and that felt pretty horrible. I bet couldn't run any faster than a 65 right now. I tasted vomit a couple times on the cooldown so I at least did something today.

First of all, I am amazed my Robert for actually being able toi run this workout with a mileage base last week of a whopping five miles. Coach talked up the importance of this workout to me yesterday and told me it would be a good test. If this was a test then I am thrilled because it was kind of easy once we changed it to :45 rest. I think I probably would have been able to do the whole thing with :30, though I wouldn't have been able to end in a 69.