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The sub-20 5k dread-thread

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Tinytia Oct 2007 3:52pm, 21 Oct 2007 76 posts	Quote Pin Tinytia Thanx I have an off road race next Sunday so will probably miss this session next weekend, although I will still do my usual club tempo run on tues night. Today was tough but do-able, so yes I hope to be able to 'tweak' things and see what happens next time!!
Rach E Oct 2007 4:59pm, 22 Oct 2007 1,424 posts	Quote Pin Rach E Sounds excellent Tia. Good luck on Sunday.
Homer Oct 2007 6:37pm, 23 Oct 2007 2,264 posts	Quote Pin Homer First ever attempt at proper interval training today. 5 reps on the track - aiming for 1:20 and got 1.21, 1.24, 1.22, 1.20, 1.23 Feeling good
MissingPhoenix Oct 2007 9:04am, 24 Oct 2007 276 posts	Quote Pin MissingPhoenix Nice one Homer, saw your blog, was the 1.20 when you had some competion Have you got a 5k planned, this is your thread afterall?? I did 5 x 1k intervals on Monday, very slow, average 4.28, which seems stupid after running an undulating 5k on saturday where my average k was 4.16. I set a new max HR so it's not like I wasn't trying.
Oct 2007 9:06am, 24 Oct 2007 27 posts	Quote Pin Homer - that sounds good to me. I am doing a 10k race on Sunday and next week I am going to start doing intervals at the gym and see how that goes. I have never trained on a track, in fact the only time I have run on a track was up to the finish at the East Kilbride halm marathon this year!
Rach E Oct 2007 9:10am, 24 Oct 2007 1,437 posts	Quote Pin Rach E Homer, that's some quick reps. What recoveries were they off?
Rach E Oct 2007 9:11am, 24 Oct 2007 1,438 posts	Quote Pin Rach E Steven Mac, try and do the intervals mid to late next week to give yourself time to recover from the race so you can give them your all.
Homer Oct 2007 9:11am, 24 Oct 2007 2,286 posts	Quote Pin Homer Thanks I have a plan to do the Alexandra Park 5k in December
parkbench Oct 2007 5:01am, 25 Oct 2007 207 posts	Quote Pin parkbench Intervals on the track last night. I 'enjoyed' the session, but still need to work on getting balanced times. 600m warm up. 6 x 800m with 1 min static recovery (as advised by Rach,ta). 600m warm down. Splits were: 3m11s , 3m15s , 3m18s , 3m22s , 3m30s , 3m24s. All adds to my increased weekly mileage of 14 miles :-). Try to hit all 3m18s next time.
Homer Oct 2007 7:54am, 25 Oct 2007 2,294 posts	Quote Pin Homer Doesn't seem too far apart - looks on target - well done