Tough conditions tonight ; more windy than last Thursday - manageable for the short stuff but made the 3000m tough going. I kicked the night off with the 1000m with a bit of competition ; Campbell Till led the way for the first lap and eased back after 400m and I took over, being chased by another middle distance speedster Neil Morfitt. It was great to be pushed and I ended up doing a PB by a few seconds :
33.9 62.7 34.3 34.8 = 2:55.7 (2:20.9 800m split)
Helped out with the timing for the 60 and 100m races and decided to do the 600m, seeing as I had a good race in the 1000m and had had a 30 minute break. Started well and was overtaken by Colin Smith with about 300m, a pretty quick sprinter for whom 600m is at the end of his range. He pulled ahead to a sizeable lead, but I used that as a spur to try to run him down, just failing, but grabbing a 2 second PB in the process.
33.3 32.7 33.3 = 1:39.3 ( 65 sec 400m split)
About 5 minutes later (!) the 3000m started - obviously the 600m took a bit out of the legs and I struggled a little in the conditions to maintain the pace, managing a healthy 10:07 but it was a bit of an effort!
38.5/80.9/80.9/81.8/81.4/81.9/81.6/79.9 = 10:06.9 ( km splits 3:20.3 3:23.9 3:22.7 )
The pleasing thing about tonight is that I didn't feel quite so uncoordinated running the fast stuff ; before I was having problems with rythm, almost like the feet were hitting the ground out oif sunch to when I was expecting it. I felt a lot smoother tonight.
Just Reflect
7 years ago
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