freestylin' 1200s...
well despite a marginal hangover i got up at a respectable hour and found an oval. my 400m course was quite ad hoc - but i think it was close-ish...
now i have always considered myself to be reasonable tech-savvy. at least as it applies to my pretty silver gadgets (ie ipod, camera etc). turns out i'm not. i was huffing and puffing running my 1200's and i was quite surprised that i was doing it incredibly consistently - 6m 06s each lap according to my ipod's stop watch. and then i busted a lung on the last one and was sure i was going faster - but no - 06s again. and then i looked closer. i was ignoring the last bit which i had thought was milliseconds but actually it was the seconds and the 06 that i was looking at was the minutes.... so i have no idea how many seconds past 6 min they were (prob about 30) but i was definitely short changing myself in the recovery stakes because i would wait till 8m06 seconds each time (somehow i could read the seconds at that point)....
what a dork. but nonetheless i did (at whatever speed!) my 4 x 1200's and about 500m warm up and 1.5k cool down. a nice mornings work.
glad i made it before the torrential rain started too...
posted by Ellie80 @ 1:13 pm
7 Comments:
good job Ellie..I need some of that to rub off on me before my race this weekend!
Lol, it's much easier when Sean is calling out your times for you. At least you were out then and sticking roughly to the programme; excellent stuff.
I'm so glad you make that sort of mistake too Ellie.
I got horribly confused when I was timing my son at the tri the other day and I thought I'd accidentally reset my watch because the hours looked like minutes and the minutes looked like seconds and I just looked like an idiot.
Nice job Ellie - if it makes you feel better I got really stroppy with my Garmin this morning because the total distance and the lap distance (one and the same) were reading different - finally worked out that one figure was average speed ;-)
Ellie, now you are a real serious runner you might need a real serious runner's watch :-)
I really hate those timing malfunctions. So very frustrating.
That's a good idea Ellie. If I ever run 3-something for km repeats again, I'll call them 3:00 kms! :-)
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