7 x 800

Bit tired after last night's effort, and pretty well fell asleep on the train from work to Redfern. Wasn't one of those refreshing naps, either.

Arrived at Kensington Oval to find a minor miracle had occured and the ground had come up pretty well from the swampy marsh it was on Tuesday night, and the markers were back in place for the 400m track. Seriously, you wouldn't have known the east half had been under water...well, apart from where some runners had apparently been a couple of nights ago....ahem...

Legs felt dead through the warm up, and Illie had moved around to the inside of the leg - chatting to Easy Tiger during stretching he wondered if it might be a neglected adductor. Just taking a quick look here, the location seems about right. Drills were pretty scratchy, and I decided to leave it at three accelerations, as they seemed to aggravate the inner leg.

So, down to business. SW advised against bashing the first couple, given the short recoveries and that it was a fairly lengthy session. Heck, even I'd already figured that out.

Reps went:
2:49 - constant tempo, without pushing
2:47 - tidy form up a bit, concentrate on remaining focussed through the second lap
2:44 - work a bit harder at the start. Was looking for 2:45 here
2:44 - try for 2:43, similar tactic to above, seemed to get in a little hole around 450m
2:43 - tidier rep, more like what I was aiming for on rep 5
2:44 - probably started a bit hard and got in a bit of a hole from 300 - 450
2:40 - much stronger effort, although had a flat spot from 500 - 600

Pleased to finish on quicker one, would have been nice to slip under 2:40 but not to be. Solid session, good little lead in to Saturday's Sydney Park 7.5km cross country, where hopefully I won't go and do something stupid on the first lap like last time. That'd be good.

Adductor was fine through the session but gave me some trouble through the cool down, which was curious.