Stromlo XC Intervals 4 x 1000m ; Jen and Pam Marathon Run 3:57

Saturday morning set at Stromlo XC circuits. Weather cool, some wind from the south, heavy dew on the track, sunny when the cloud burnt off. A glorious day, love autumn weather. Steve did his set solo and early. We did the same set at 830am. Plenty of people out there. We chose the creek loop for social distancing purposes.

The set: 4000m warm up, 5 x 100m strides, 4 x 1000m efforts, 1000m recovery on undulating creek loop, warm down.

Splits Me: 3:08,3:04,3:02,3:05. Steve: 3:22,3:20,3:19,3:16. Mia and Gabe: 4:30s/km+/-

The Handlebar cafe was open serving take away coffee and jaffles. We had to supply own chairs and use paper cup. Great chatting at a distance.

This afternoon a recovery run. Tomorrow morning a long run on forest trails. There is rain on the way. 125km this week.

Jen and Pam ran a couple of laps around the lake this morning, full marathon distance. Jen was scheduled to run Tokyo marathon before it was reduced for elites only. Both trotted around together this morning in 3h57.

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