Wednesday July 15th was another day of working both jobs. Luckily I got time to have a little nap in between, as getting up at 3am after the kayak race the night before was pretty tough. This day was to entail some hill sprints. With Mark our coach not here I was given the job of relaying his workout wishes. We are doing what? 8 second sprints with a whole minute recovery. Some in the group thought that this was too easy. How many are we doing? 2-3 That's it? What kind of workout is this? Just a quick one to get the neural pathways better acquainted with our muscles. Off we were to do our warm-up, which shouldn't have been too hard as it was another hot one. For myself that ended up being a 25 min jog out and back to the store where I kindly used the facilities, took my shirt off and changed into my new racing flats for a test spin.
Dang these are nothing on my feet.
On go the Brooks T6 flats and oh me oh my, it felt as though there was nothing on my feet. If the ground had not been cushioned I would have thought that I was running in bare feet. Off to meet everybody at the base of the hill. As per anytime I have no shirt on the naked runner comments come out. Personally I think they wish they were running without their shirts. Once again, "Just 2-3 and the first one doesn't need to be full out." But alas this seemed to be easy for them and most opted for 5 or 6. Mark told me the next day that I should have stood firm with them on the 2-3 but we are all adults and they make their own choices and have to live with whatever comes of it. I myself planned on doing 6 as I had done 3 the week before and I don't know if I can tap into the sprint side more but I don't find these easy. I do find that they burn the lungs something fierce, to the point of still being a bit sore even after an easy 10 minute cool down.
Wednesday's workout, 25 min warm-up 6 8 sec sprint hills with 1 min recovery and 10 min cool down.
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