Decided to take the plunge, step up Pain and to the HuRTS session on Tuesday lunchtime.
Met Tim and jogged down to the start of the session at the Barangaroo Gates.
After a quick briefing, we were into the set which was supposed to be 14 reps of 3 minutes with a 1 minute standing recovery. So basically out and back 14 times. Or 7 times if you want to think like that.
On what felt like a particularly warm Sydney winter's lunchtime, I tried to take the first few reps easy knowing it could all come crashing down on me if I went too hard to early.
I ran with Tim for the first few before he pulled away. From about rep 6 he was consistently around 20/30m in front.
From about rep 8 things started to get hard and the heat kicked in. From then on it was a bit of a mental struggle to the end, with the last 4 reps in particular hard work. A hard session.
That being said, we both finished in one piece and weren't disgraced with plenty of runners finishing behind us...
The reps went as follows:
3.59, 3.53, 3.51, 3.55, 3.53, 3.54, 3.57, 3.59, 4.01, 4.07, 3.59, 4.12, 4.06, 4.10 for 11.2km. Pretty solid effort really for our first time.
My legs were stuffed for the rest of the day though! One to keep in the training plan from now on.
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