Weaker than I thought

Rode to work today (West Pennant Hills to Balmain). Normally I start to feel a little leg weary around Hunters Hill. Lately, it hasn't been till Drummoyne, so I've figured that I'm geting stronger. Well, today I started to feel it by the end of the M2 :-( Still, I guess that's not unreasonable after the weekend.

Track session at Run club tonight. After all the normal warm up, drills, stretching, etc, we did 2x1200 pickups (each 400 stronger than the previous one), 2x200 hard, 2x800 pickups and 2x200 hard to finish off. Normal Abs work was replaced with lunge walking because the ground was too cold to lie on, but then we lay down to do stretches anyhow :-)

I was really stuffed going into the 2x800. I just felt like I didn't have anything left in me, and according to Tim, I "got a bit untidy" in the first 400. Managed to pull it back together though. For all that, I still felt like the 200s went really well - maybe you don't have time to get tired :-) All my life, I've "known" that I couldn't sprint, but Heather beat that out of me a month or two ago at run club by dragging me through some 500s in times that I never would have thought possible. OK, I'm no Matt Shirvington (at least in the sprinting dept ;-), but I'm a whole lot better than I ever thought I was! Thanks Heather.

sfG