Two more workouts: faster and faster!

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. The body really is good at doing what it is told. After two weeks and only four workouts, I'm running much faster than I thought I would. The rust is gone. I'm seriously thinking 8:45ish next week, especially if the chiro treatment works out. I had a pretty long evaluation with Dr. Neil today, and he seemed to think it was a fixable problem. He will treat me on Monday.

This week, I did two workouts. Wednesday, Debardi and I jogged over to McGill at around 3pm. The girls guarding the track wanted two bucks from us, but Debardi sweet-talked them and in exchange for letting us in for free, we did our workout shirtless. Fair trade, I think. ;)

Anyway, the workout was 2x(600-400-600-400) with 2min between each interval, 10min between each set. François gave us some goal times, but they were more for Julien than for us old guys, so we modified. Still, I was pleased to run 1:47-67-1:47-66 in the first set. It gave me enough confidence to go faster in the second set, and we managed to pull it off: 1:44-64-1:44-66. The last quarter was tough, and Debardi waited for me to pull me through the last 100. Still, it felt great. I am getting faster every day.

The second workout proved it, as I opened with a 1:40 600 on a hot Friday afternoon. The workout was 600-500-400-300-200-100, the first three at 1500 pace and the next three fast. 1:22, 64 (a little too fast, but felt great), 46, 30 and no time, but fast with the McGill group doing 200s in 27. Lots of recovery, but I'm really more concerned with getting the legs to turnover, so I don't mind.

I'm a little disappointed with how much attention François is paying to me. I know, odd, as I'm a coach, too, and we both know I can figure it out on my own, but I've asked him to help me with this 1500 thing. It is a common problem with Frank: he has too many athletes and tries to do too much. He is a great coach, and a great man, but sometimes his plate gets too full. He wanted me to do 15x200 at 1500 pace on Monday, but that's my tempo day, and I don't think he realised that I'm running a 3k on Wednesday, not 1500.