Its a slight progression on Lickprivick threshold session this Monday. It is 4 reps at threshold effort, starting the effort from the usual place on the pavement and finishing at the water tower. The regroup into your pack and recovery is a steady run over the top and back down Owen Avenue, past the lockups to the start. Warm up via the Crooked Lum and the Murray and come back the same way.
Remember that threshold is a level of effort, not a specific pace. Threshold going up this hill will be significantly slower than threshold would be on a flat road. It is the level of effort you could maintain for about 1 hour in a race situation. Nobody can tell you what pace you should be running at; it is individual to you but part of learning to race over any distance is knowing where your various limits are. Anyone can hammer away for the first mile of a race and then be on their knees for the final miles. Similarly, its easy enough to start off way too slow and go flying past people at the end. In both cases, you will not achieve anything like your best potential time for that race, whatever the distance. So during these sessions, put the blinkers on and don't worry too much about what pace others in your pack are doing; try to run to your own limit.
Alan
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