Yasso Surpasso (Barely)
I’m about 21 weeks away from my marathon, so I have the luxury of increasing mileage gradually. I did a 12-miler last Sunday and will do another this Sunday before bumping up to 14 in a week.
In the meantime I went out in the heat for my Yasso 800s yesterday with, as always, a target of sub 3:36. There was a large PE class using the track for laps, so I had to run in in lane 4 the entire way around, but that’s the way things go.
Intervals: 4 x 800 meters
Goal pace: sub-3:36
Lap 1: 3:35.25
Lap 2: 3:35.62
Lap 3: 3:29.86
Lap 4: 3:34.86
Average: 3:33.90
Total distance: 4 miles
Ha-ha! Talk about skating in on the razor’s edge. But no big red fails. Next week I’ll try 5 x 800 and see if I can squeeze another sub 3:36 in.
Today I did a six-mile tempo run at 8:30 pace. Things are looking up.
Nice work. I have Yassos to surpasso tonight. Cheers!
Nice work! Glad to see you are making progress.
Great job! Since there is a lack of red fails, perhaps you could annotate the interval times with positive words in a different color. Like WIN! or SCORE!. It would spice it up a bit. :)
Those 800s look downright purty!
Not a single red fail to make the rest of us (i.e., me) feel better.