Training Thursday 12th November

 The session this week is another in the series of Threshold Thursday sessions. We will return to a session from about 5 weeks ago. 

The session is 5 x 6 minutes at threshold effort with a 2 min jog recovery in between. Remember that "threshold" is a level of effort corresponding to the effort you could maintain for about 1 hour in a race (e.g. a 10 mile to 10k race depending on your race pace) or an effort that is just beyond comfortable such that if required you could gasp out about 3 words whilst in the midst of a rep. This session trains your system to continue to sustain effort in the presence of accumulating lactate levels.

We will return to the College Milton Loop for this one. For the warm up run down the Queensway to West Mains Road and then start the reps at the entrance into College Milton and do your reps around the Glenburn Road circuit in an anti-clockwise direction. The run back to the club is the direct route via the Queensway again.

As with all club sessions, it is imperative that your pack regroups during the recovery section after every rep, meaning that everyone turns and jogs back to the slowest runner in your pack and then continues jogging on until all runners in your pack come together (but socially distanced!). It is a jog recovery, so nobody should stop and wait for their pack to come to them.

As always, if anyone feels that over the past month they have been in too slow or too fast a pack, let me know and I shall adjust your bubble.

Alan