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Not if I can help it!
PM you might be surprised. I hadn't done anything like 800s until last year so I know exactly how you feel! They are hard and I almost cried at the end of some of them. I did swear a lot, at myself, at my garmin and at my running partner if he was there! Foul language too!
But try and stick with it and it will pay dividends. I found it took a few sessions before I got used to even pacing them. As Spoons says try and not belt the first one, which will then make you tired for the others.
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I had the Garmin set up to beep at the intervals but as I haven't used this function before I had not realised that it was automatically counting the laps, therefore I was pressing lap and moving it on a stage each time, I realised something was wrong when it said I had finished after only 2 reps
But anyway the reps had been done and that is the main thing, and I am also a bit better at using the Garmin than I was before
The last half of the run was recorded correctly, but by then I was guessing the distance so I was running for too long, just by a little bit.
I think it would have been easier had it not been dark, round a strange route, with puddles and on and off of pavements
I need to change browsers now so that I can put up the splits...
So here, laps 3,4,5,6 added together are actually the first effort.
9+ 10 is a another but I must have forgotten to press lap at the end so it is showing slower as has included the recovery.
11 has done it right, but I did over distance as by now I wanted to throw Garmin in bin so I guessed the distance.
13 is also right but slightly over distance. And I think it was the fastest of all the repeats as suggested.
Please don't laugh too loudly, oh go on then!
Split
Time
Distance
Avg Pace
Summary 51:25.9 4.89 10:31
1 11:28.6 1.00 11:29
2 :06.0 0.01 11:34
3 1:10.7 0.12 9:29
4 :06.0 0.01 9:07
5 1:09.0 0.12 9:15
6 4:27.7 0.49 9:01
7 2:16.0 0.12 18:14
8 :01.7 0.00 11:28
9 1:00.4 0.12 8:06
10 6:57.2 0.69 10:05
11 5:33.5 0.65 8:30
12 3:21.5 0.18 18:28
13 4:50.6 0.58 8:23
14 8:57.2 0.78 11:33
I walked between reps, hope that's ok. I just feel like I want to go and do it again now and get it all down properly.
I felt I could probably do another one at the end and quite strangely enjoyed it! The girls that came with me would rather do hills!
Sorry about the mess up, how far am I going today?
Feeling quite good about he running and a fail at correctly using the equipment!
Did you set the session is the garmin training centre then transfer it to the device? If so, you need never hit lap. It will just automatically go on to the next rep and then you also know that each effort is accurately measured.
What distance was your recovery? There are a couple of nice paces in there - I think!
*pops head in and waves*
I'm finding out loads of new stuff about my Garmin too, Pottermiss! I thought I was quite good with stats and technology, but I have been well shown up as a luddite
Hope the training is all going well
It's going alright so far I think, good luck with your training frodo.
Minni - the recovery was about 200 metres, I just tried to make them last as long as I could (don't tell Spoons) .
I'm also rubbish with Garmin setting! However looking at laps 11 + 13 it looks like around 8:30 pace which is slightly quicker than I was expecting to be honest! How knackered were you at the end? Could you have done more?
Walking the recoveries is fine
What's tonight then? Did we decide on upping the Wednesday mileage a bit each week in the end? I've forgotten.......
10 !!
When we finished last night the two ladies that ran with me said, 'but we will never have to do more than four, will we' I just smiled to myself and kept quiet.
I feel I could have done another anyway, I was just focusing on the bit where I thought the end of the rep was and each time it seemed to come a bit quicker, so I was happy with that.
I would have slowed if the reps were much further I think. But I was so distracted by trying to work out what the Garmin was doing , certainly in the first half of the session I wasn't sure what stage I was at for a bit!
Tonight's run has already been done, just going to post the splits now..
Here you are, I did a new route and wasn't sure where it went or how far, if fact at one point for about a mile I didn't have a clue where I was going to end up, then I came to a crossroads and could see my favourite duel carriageway up ahead so I went that way.
I tried to keep it slower than last week's run, duel carriageway mile was quicker as always (mile 4). Was having a great time until I ran by a plastic bag full of sick,
sorry, had to share!
SplitTimeDistanceAvg PaceSummary1:05:34.96.2010:35110:16.61.0010:17210:39.21.0010:39310:33.41.0010:33410:19.31.0010:19510:41.01.0010:41610:39.41.0010:3972:26.00.2012:18
Different route took me 6.2miles.
Edited to say that the splits didn't look like that when I last looked! I will do them again
The paces were set as I had downloaded the session from the Garmin ready plan, but that was just anoying because the Garmin kept beeping at me and because it was dark I couldn't tell if it was saying 'speed up' or 'slow down' so I took it as 'speed up' and was suprised when I passed under a lamp-post to see it was really saying slow down.
I felt I really coudn't win with that thing last night, and now it's telling me it's nearly full, it's being so needy right now