Thursday is another variation and slight progression on our Threshold Thursday theme. The session is 6 x 6 minutes at threshold with a 2 minute jog recovery. We are getting in to a serious total amount of threshold effort in this session with 36 minutes of effort. Given that theoretically, threshold is the effort you could sustain for about an hour in a race situation, then it is expected that towards the end of this session things will be getting a little bit uncomfortable. We are also likely to be lacking daylight. Therefore, this session is partially in the country and partially on the Sainsburys loop.
The route starts the same as Monday night with a warm-up via Strathaven Rd and Sainsburys to the Langlands Club House junction. The first rep starts there and heads past the clubhouse to Auldhouse. For those arriving first in Auldhouse, do a complete U-turn at Auldhouse Cross and head back to Langlands via the same route. As everyone else meets the faster runners on their way back, turn around when they pass you and head back to Langlands. The session then completes with laps of the Sainsburys Loop in a clockwise direction.
As always, listen to your body and try to run to a constant effort, not a constant pace. Going uphill you will be slower than you will going downhill. It is knowing that feeling and where you can push to that makes you a better racer. There is no point looking at the pace on a watch during a race if the course is going up and down, into the wind, out of the wind, on grass, on road, in mud, etc. It is all about being able to know the feeling of effort and where your limit is given that you know the approximate amount of time a race will take and how long you have to sustain that effort for.
Alan
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