A speed session! With wrestlers.

6M - speed session incl 6x100m, 6x200m, 6x400m and 3x1M

This is the speed session I was intending to do last Friday. I've not tried it before. A new one from Ron. It's three separate batches of 6 sprint, with a 1 mile run in between them (and after the last). Each sprint is flat out. The miles get faster as the session builds.

I felt a bit lethargic at the beginning today (perhaps yesterday's mild GI upset, perhaps four days of inactivity, perhaps the altitude). But I got going pretty well and by the time the 100 sprints were done I felt pretty good. All the sprints were done up a slight hill and the mile intervals were done over undulating routes. The last one was supposed to be at 5m15s pace. I managed 5m40s. Probably not too bad given the altitude/slope.

The session was made more entertaining by the presence of a troop of Indian wrestlers out on a training session. They wanted to race me in the sprints, but were to chunky to be very fast. One of them was like a giant. They said he was going to the Commonwealth Games.