May 28, 2021
Warm Up 3.6 K: 20:00.82
Rest: 1:00.25
<Intervals: 6 Sets by 1 K @ 4:25>
1st K: 4:17.88
Rest: 1:00.62
2nd K: 4:15.87
Rest: 1:00.26
3rd K: 4:17.25
Rest: 1:00.15
4th K: 4:13.11
Rest: 1:00.63
5th K: 4:25.75
Rest: 1:00.48
6th K: 4:20.50
Warm Down 3.4 K: 21:54.07
Total 13 K: 1:13:47
It'd been a while since I last did intervals. I felt fit and strong. But I was a little afraid if my aging mind-body could withstand the intensity of the training tonight.
I warmed up for 20 minutes before doing intervals. I like this twenty minutes. It's 20 minutes of inner talk, talk between my mind and body, so to speak. My mind-body complex concluded that I was nice and fit. More than strong enough to go through all six sets strongly. And I believed it.
My mind-body judgment was right. I completed all 6 sets under the target of 4:25, except for the 5th, where I was 0.75 second slower. But the margin is negligible. I'm afraid I was a little too bullish in the 4th set. I was going a lot faster than I thought I was, which affected my performance in the following K.
With the interval session completed fairly satisfactorily, I wrapped up my training tonight with another 20-minute warm down jog. This is another favorite time of mine on interval night. Immediately after the interval session, soreness in the legs is maximum. Breathing is still extremely rough. All I can do is limp at first, barely dragging one leg forward after the other. But slowly the soreness eases off as I run along. About 5 minutes or so into it, breathing suddenly starts feeling so easy, which makes you feel as if you've got lungs twice as large. I love that moment. You kind of feel omnipotent.
Back home fresh bonito sashimi awaited me. I was so glad that I didn't eat it before the training. I would have spewed it all up if I'd had. With my stomach empty, my body felt so light during intervals. And with an empty stomach, the late night meal tasted so good after the run.
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