The evening session with Mick’s Thursday group is described as “VO2: Long intervals”. We meet just off Thornton Road (a shady district of Bradford) instead of the usual shady district in Bradford. This particular locale is like the before photos in some city regeneration story, but of course there is no regeneration and little chance of any after photos anytime soon. It is not somewhere I’d choose to run on my own, but feels safe enough in a large group.
After exercises and a warm up jog we do four circuits of a one kilometre rectangle with a three minute plus rest in between runs. We aim for something a little faster than our 10k pace, but not quite as fast as 5k pace. We set off in reverse order and in theory we should all get back at around the same time. The competitive streak kicks in and we all end up going a little faster than our original intention. After a 2k cool down we all head home following a really good session.
Next Thursday we have an evening at the track planned for a “short tempo” session. This will be my first track session so I’m really looking forward to it.
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