Saturday - 6 x 800m hills (jog recovery)

I had a new starter in Ben this morning, after Erika was a DNS following a niggle in her hip. We met at the bottom of Snake Hill at 6:45am charging and ready to go. The progression from last Saturday was to run each rep as 800m (as opposed to 3 minutes), adding an extra 20-30 seconds onto each effort. So I was probably slightly conservative, but better off being that way than going too hard and blowing up. Each rep got me to the first speed hump on North Head Secnic Drive (although the first rep was just shy if it, and the last rep was well past it - I just ran until the Garmin beeped at me signalling 800m). The times reflect this: 3:21, 3:27, 3:28, 3:29, 3:30, and 3:31. The heart rate monitor was on fire (ever since tightening it), maxing out at 179 bpm. All up, a very solid session. Great effort by Ben as well, going straight into it and also completing the whole session at his first attempt. A slow walk back up the hill followed by an easy cool-down along some random tracks that Ben had discovered around North Head for just over 17 km all up.