Today is day 60 of the campaign.
iThink: The Chills, "Heavenly Pop Hit"
WX at 1 PM (18) Jan 21 30 (-1) 26 (-3) 30.27 (1025) NNE 5 mist WC 24(-4)
Odometer 13A: 407.0mi
Z3 high. Average/max heart rate = 158/169
I almost didn't get this in today. I was held up with work today and had a 90-minute oral interview today about strategic thinking, which turned into a pretty good chat since I had received the interview questions beforehand and had prepared my responses accordingly.
By the time I was rolling out of the office, it was 10:15pm and I knew the gym would close at 11:00. I'd set the erg at 7,000m in the vain hope that I might be able to get that distance in, but thought it would be closer to 6,000m, which was very nearly not the case. The gym attendant came up as I was on my last 80m to hit 6,000 and I started going full bore to finish quickly.
In general, my experimentation with a hard catch and drive has paid off - the trick is to maintain enough endurance to continue to go at the pace I'd like. What I found useful was that I could compensate for speed by going harder but with much longer recoveries, so I was cranking at 24-25spm, rather than the usual 29-30 that I've done in the past. The average pace/500m was pretty representative of most, although the first 1,000m was closer to 2:06/500m and there was about a km worth of 2:13-2:15/500m. On the other hand, I had plenty left, and since the attendant was willing to let me crank out the last 80m, I was going 1:52/500m and speeding up for the finish.
Altogether, after yesterday's hard dreadmill run, today felt pretty good, actually. I need to go to sleep earlier today so I can get my decent interval of sleep and go in reasonably well rested. That means going to sleep before 2:00am.
Splits
Distance: 6000
Time: 25:53.0
Avg/500m: 02:09.4
Drag Factor: 100
Per Mile: 00:06:57
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