Indoor races 12/Jan/2013 – Meeting Régional 2 (Coque) In my first race for the year, I ran a 200m in 23″41. I finished first in the fifth heat, and overall 16th out of 39. Later that day, I participated in the 4x200m relay, where I …
The 8x300m training on Tuesday had me hobbling down the stairs in pain the next morning, bracing myself against the wall to minimize the weight I’d have to put on the left foot. Needless to say, the left achilles tendon was giving me a lot …
Track training today. We started off with the usual 2km warmup on pavement (at a leisurely 6:15 min/km pace). The main training was 8x300m. The ground was covered in frost near the 100m, but given how the left achilles tendon was feeling I still opted not to use spikes. Throughout the training I was never really feeling it, and felt slow and sluggish; plus mix in some increasing irritation in the achilles tendon and it wasn’t a motivating evening. Timing-wise, I started off slow (ten seconds behind the leading athletes) and got gradually slower. Towards the end, my only motivation was to complete the training. I clocked in the 8 repeats in 54″2, 53″6, 54″0, 55″2, 55″2, 57″5, 57″0 and 56″6.
Distance hiked: 12,75 km in 2:25:17; with an average pace of 11:24 min/km and 293 m elevation gain.