12 x 400m

Whew, I absolutely kicked my own arse today at HuRTS. I was perversely looking forward to 12 x 400m today, not sure why, but I do like that session.

It was a reasonable sized group today, but not that many guys compared to Tuesday. There were freshly painted lanes on the oval which seemed to make it 400m for one lap, Tucks ran around once with the garmin to make sure and it seemed to be about 415m, and most guys felt it was about 2 seconds longer than we were running previously. At least I know this time that my distance was the same on each lap if I stuck in my lane, as I was thinking last time that I might have been drifting in or out at certain points, it’s hard to tell when your HR is close to max...

I’m never sure how to pace these things. My main goal for today was to finish all 12 and try to keep some consistency with the reps, within a 5 second range. I managed to accomplish both missions too (well except for the last rep). We run off 2 minutes and it’s always tough when I’m getting 10-15 seconds less recovery that the quick guys, but I like to think that just hardens me up!

I was gasping after the first few and had to really concentrate on breathing easily and trying to get my heart rate down before the start of the next rep. Good practice. Here are the splits:

Rep - Time - HR av - HR mx
- 1 -- 1.18 -- 131 -- 170
- 2 -- 1.17 -- 164 -- 178
- 3 -- 1.19 -- 165 -- 180
- 4 -- 1.17 -- 168 -- 183
- 5 -- 1.19 -- 171 -- 184
- 6 -- 1.19 -- 173 -- 188
- 7 -- 1.21 -- 172 -- 186
- 8 -- 1.20 -- 174 -- 185
- 9 -- 1.22 -- 174 -- 184
-10 -- 1.22 -- 173 -- 184
-11 -- 1.22 -- 147 -- 184
-12 -- 1.25 -- 146 -- 175