Paris Training Camp Day 8 : 4 x 200m, 3 x 1000m ; Steve 3 x 1500m 5:16 average

Weather cloudy, warm and extremely humid, light winds. I didn't feel as good as yesterday, efforts were better...time for a recovery day.

The set: Warm up, 4 x 100m strides, 4 x 200m strides,200m jog (34,33,33,32), 3 x 1000m tempo,400m jog (3:12,3:09,3:07), 4 x 100m strides, warm down. All up 13km, easy recovery run in the afternoon to make 136km last 7 days.

Thoughts on the set: Another small step forward today. Only two more sessions scheduled this week with a track session on Thursday and Parkrun on Saturday. Taper begins on Sunday, all I can do at that point is lighten the load, keep the same intensity going, stay injury free and freshen up.

Today Steve ran 3 x 1500m efforts (5:16,5:17,5:15), weather cold and windy. Steve is in half marathon training mode.

This is what it looks like at home.

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