AIS Track : 4 x 800m, 1min jog recovery

Finally got to the track to do a session only to find school camp groups hogging lane one on mass. They all politely moved aside but clearly not hardened trackies who know to stay clear while jogging, chatting and strutting. The session: 3km warm up, 4 x 800m with 1 minute jog recovery, 6km warm down. No strides today. I should have but was keen to get things done before the track traffic got worse. The efforts: As planned, nothing under 2:40 and in training shoes to give the achilles more time to recover. 2:43, 2:40, 2:42, 2:40. As I said there was some shouting 'track'. I held my ground in lane one but the shouting didn't help my lactate levels. I did notice how weak the left ankle and thigh is to my right. The form was good but not great. It was hard to believe that was my 10km pace less than three months ago. It was not easy. That's session is a start and will feed in nicely to my core Saturday session. I get to do ACT Masters Athletic Club XC Handicap at Majura on Sunday as well. All in all another positive week with over 120km for the second week, all the sessions, achilles at 98.5%...but still a long way from being in good form. I will need all of the next weeks until Gold Coast Half to have a decent run.