Originally Posted by
Travs
Interesting day today. AM a standard easy session on the treadmill, 4 miles 2000ft, followed by some stretching and weights.
Our group at the club is officially on holiday, but tonight I joined a younger group, generally made up of absolute whippets and track runners. Actually did drills tonight. The only drills I usually do before a session are strides and maybe a half-hearted bit of skipping around. But this was a structured drill session, and to be honest I was way out of my depth and nearly kneed myself in the head about six times.
Thankfully we got onto the session... 5 x 1km with 2 minute rests. Considering I've raced the two days previously, and was chasing a younger group of runners, I was fairly pleased with my night's work, and even put a couple of them to the sword.
One thing I noticed in difference between this more 'high performance' group and my own veteran group... if we are having a bad day, then will slog it out and finish the session regardless, in the belief that we've at least trained a bit of mental toughness, even if it wasn't going right running-wise. This group was different... one or two of them having a bad day, so after a chat with the coach they dropped out of the rep session, and did some further drills and short sprints. I'm nobody to argue with the superb coaches at our club, perhaps there's reasoning behind this, but certainly new to me. We'd perhaps skip a rep, or shorten the reps, if it wasn't going well, but I'd be reluctant to drop out completely. Maybe that's why I'm decidedly average when it comes to running on the flat...
Running with confidence at the moment, and feeling good, but need a couple of easy days before the Jubilee Plunge on Sunday and Nine Standards on Tuesday.