200 METER REPEATS
I met up with Brett, Bryant, and Sariah to do some 200 meter repeats at the 21st Street Pond. They were kind enough to humor me and do a birthday workout with me of 32 200-meter repeats for me turning 32 today. We wanted to keep them easy though since we have the marathon next week so we aimed for 35 seconds and did a 200-meter jog for rest at 6:50 pace.
The problem is I lost track very early on with the count. I forgot my watch had autolapped twice already after the warmup during some strides (and after I had switched it to kilometers and a 0.2 kilometer autolap) before we started. So later in the workout I thought I could just subtract two (for the two mile warmup) and then divide by two to get our count. But really I needed to subtract four and then divide by two because of those strides. So long story short we only did 31 thinking we'd done 32. But we did do two strides (about 100 meters each) before we started, so we'll count it.
We averaged 34.97 seconds for the 31 reps, so right where we wanted it. I also planned to do the 32nd one in 32 seconds, but turns out it was the actually on the 31st and I did it in 31 seconds. So the whole 32 thing didn't really pan out...haha. But that's all right. A good workout with good company this morning. |