Saturday - 5 x 1200 m (off 3’)

A solo speed session on a very warm morning, the one saving grace was that the humidity was slightly lower than usual. Starting outside Manly LSC, I ran the reps up and down the beachfront in the bike lane. A moderate northeasterly made the odd reps tougher, and given that I completed an odd number of reps, this slowed the average pace down a bit. Doesn’t matter, as it’s still good training nonetheless. Splits were 3:51, 3:54, 3:59, 3:55 and 4:04 - that final one bringing the average rep pace down a bit. Nothing spectacular, but hard to read too much into the times given the conditions (which were beautiful, just bloody hot). I did manage to max the heart rate out at 181 bpm, a new PB for me. A slow cool-down bumping into Justin for a bit, finishing with just over 17 km all up.