Tuesday Track Workout (7.0mi)

So I attended my second consecutive track workout last night, and again, it was a great success. The track workouts are really a great way to push your pace, get your cardiovascular system really working, and increase your lactate threshold. I'm fast becoming a big fan. The format of tonight's workout was different than last weeks as promised. I also brought my watch this time, so I could time myself and manage my pace better lap to lap... Instead of doing an 8-lap "set" as we did last week, tonight's set would only be 7-laps, consisting of 5 threshold laps (1K distance), and 2 recovery laps. You again repeat this 8 times. I'm not entirely convinced having my watch with me made any difference on my lap to lap times, but I think it did in fact encourage me to push my pace a little bit harder at the end, on the last few "sets" anyway. For the most part, I was pretty consistent throughout, and was able to pick up the pace with a fast last 1K set of 3:34, which would translate to a 5:42min/mi pace, although I'm not sure I could have kept it up for quite that long... I'm very anxious to see what next weeks format will be...