The 'lentil-free' windsprints
6.15 am, 4km , Centennial Park
The Canberra marathoners were back at training, they looked very fit.
Sean had a big group doing windsprints around McKay Oval: stride the straights, float the bends. We last did these in September with a much smaller group, and without a track being marked out so it was a bit more casual then. Sean said he was interested in the total time, which I didn't think was a big deal, maybe just to stop us loafing around.
This morning I followed a few people out and the tempo was more consistent between straights and bends in accordance with Sean's description of the run. I noticed Kit started up the back, lucky thing, some excuse about a long Sunday run the other week out of town.
It was a nice bit of variety in the training program. Time was 14.58. It was all over relatively quickly, tasty, but not sure on the substance. Like eating at MacDonalds.
posted by Don Juan @ 8:28 am
7 Comments:
Hehe I am glad I am not the only one with a childish mind :-) good to be back this morning... I was getting lazy and fat on easter eggs ;-)
Maybe Sean needs to introduce Deli-choices.
Trouble with you ultra marathoners is that you don't appreciate a high quality speed session. More Claude's than McDonald's.
you mean that wasn't meant to be an ultra-endurance session?
I know what you mean - kind of like a weight watchers chocolate biscuit. This week will be interesting. Time to dust off the bike and do some cross training I think.
Yeah what WTR said.. I always agree with him.
The session works best when done over 12 laps (4.8K) of an accurate track - it is a very good indicator of 5k time - i.e. your windsprint time should equal your 5k race time.
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