10x 400m Reps

I decided on something a little faster today. I really wanted to move at faster than 10km race pace and see what that felt like.

So I fiddled with the fully mains charged Garmin and convinced it to do 10 sets of 400m and only permited myself a minute between each to recover.

I was pumped as I got the rep start point and revved up into the first set. Wind behind, but decided to just run out hard and deal with the wind on the way back. 1:23 was my fastest and 1:42 was the slowest with a fairly tight range.

Hrt was deep in zone five for the second half of each on section and the recovery was fast - dropping back to zone three almost instantly. Felt like the minute recovery was over too soon every time and it was a real effort to keep going and I needed Tenke there to scream "No stopping" at me. By the last rep, I felt how Jason looked at the end of his max hrt test.

1 00:01:27
2 00:01:33
3 00:01:29
4 00:01:23
5 00:01:33
6 00:01:42
7 00:01:39
8 00:01:29
9 00:01:42
10 00:01:29

Giving an average pace of 3:52 min kms, so a 19:18 5km. Still not really good enough, but definately trending in the right direction.