Early on Saturday, I joined the Nungambakkam Nitros for my first ever interval speed training. With the aim of improving all our timings and achieving a Sub 2:00 half marathon finish for DRHM 2016, one of the members has taken it on himself to make custom training plans for all those interested. In order to do that he had us running an interval speed workout to access our running level.
The workout had us running 2 sets of 3 repeats of 400 meters at maximum effort with 90 seconds rest in between repeats and 3 minutes rest in between sets. This was my 2nd run post TWCM - the first one was a slow and easy 3k on Thursday. I felt recovered enough to attempt this but really wasn't sure how it would go.
My timings were 2'15", 2'07", 2'18", 2'08", 2'19" and 2'29" for each of those sets. The first couple of sets felt ok. The third, fourth and fifth sets felt like torture - I felt that my legs would fall off. I was so fatigued by the last set that I decided to run it at my half marathon pace and just finish the workout. The last hundred meters or so I had another runner pacing and pushing me to give my max effort. After it was all over it felt like a great workout because of the sense of achievement I felt at the end of it. I believe I should be targeting a time of 2'00' in order to improve my half marathon time. I think I could push for that.
I read up on some speed interval training and I liked this article describing the basic types of speed training for beginners.
Heres our customary - slightly blurry - group picture post run...
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