VO2 maxed

12M - VO2 max session
10x800m at 4.36??-4.58min/M with jog back + 45s recovery
2M warm up and warm down

This was a funny VO2 max session. It's always the hardest session of the week, but it felt different today, perhaps because I did my sprints yesterday and wasn't quite ready for another hard session. It wasn't bad. Just different.

I normally don't do back to back hard sessions. Instead, I intersperse them with recovery or at least general aerobic days. But I didn't want to do a hard session in the 2 days before the race this week, so I decided to give it a bash today.

My first rep came at a ?spurious 4.36 pace (I ran this one in the opposite direction to normal/the others... perhaps there's a slope). For the other 9, my times were similar to the last session on the same route (still the flatish one in Battersea).

I had expected to be faster this time, but I guess I may have been slowed by yesterday's speed session. Each rep felt hard and I was burning from about 2/3 distance and had nothing left at the end of each one. But, unlike sometimes, I didn't feel like I needed to keel over at the line. Maybe general fatigue stopped me giving as much.

My right thigh is getting better and was less noticeable during the day today. I didn't feel it at all once I got going with the reps. No other problems. Lighter days the next two.