Mile-ish Workout

Thursday's workout involved track repeats focused on making surges/kicks feel slightly more comfortable. In reality, nothing about the workout was comfortable, but I am pretty happy with the results given that I ran it in trainers by my lonesome. Each 200 came right after the rep before it meaning that the first rep was actually 1200 meters, etc.

1000 - 3:08
200 - :34

(lap jog)

800 - 2:31
200 - :33

(lap jog)

600 - 1:54
200 - :32

(lap jog)

400 - 1:14
200 - :32

(lap jog)

200 - :35
200 - :30

Yasso 1000's

On somewhat of a variation from the traditional 800's (run 10 of them with about equal rest and your average time "equates" to your marathon time), today I did Yasso 1000's. Basically, it's the same workout but a little tougher to make up for the fact that I'm a lower distance guy at heart.

I did 8x1000 with one lap jog between reps (about 2:30 rest). Splits were as follows:

3:20.5
3:19.9
3:21.0
3:18.6
3:19.4
3:17.8
3:19.1
3:16.9

Since 3:20 pace is going through 800 in 2:40, I would be very happy if this equated to anything close to my marathon time. The good news is that my legs are rocks at this point. The only trouble I had with the workout was on the last lap of some of the later reps when I had to breathe a little more heavily than I wanted to. That and some stomach issues. If I had to guess, it will be low energy/GI stuff that does me in if the marathon turns out to be a failure.