4 x 400m

What with Barbara and Heavy Helen last night, most CFEB athletes were feeling pretty torn up today. Max had mercy on us and gave us a simple sprint workout to spare our battered upper bodies:

Run 400 Meters every five minutes on the fifth minute for 15 minutes.

1:18 | 1:24 | 1:24 | 1:25 = 5:31 total

These times are OK, but not great. My fastest 400m to date is 1:12, but that was done at a real track and with glycogen in my system. Fasting is, I think, detrimental to performance in sprint-type workouts - I certainly felt like I ran out of gas 200m in today. I also hate running on the road, because I spend so much energy adjusting my stride to avoid seams and potholes, and can't just open up and concentrate on the running.

Interestingly, my calves were burning from yesterday. I think it's the heavy KB swings - I pop up on to my toes to generate enough momentum to get that 2 pood overhead, and that's wearying to calf muscles. Thankfully, I have no real soreness from yesterday's squats. I don't know what went so horribly wrong in Virginia to cripple me for a week, but I'm glad it hasn't happened again.