It’s Yasso season. It is always Yasso season. Or should be. Or could be.
At any rate 5 pax present and it was 0530 so we did this:
Warmorama:
- 1/2 mile warm up
- SSHx20ic
- Windmillx10ic
- CarrotPullerx15ic
The thang: 800 meters (2 laps) at tempo pace. Recover with 400 meter (1 lap) recover pace. Repeato x 5.
COP happened
Moleskin musings:
- It got dicey as the workout went on. Not because of the pax, but because that skunk kept getting closer and closer to the track.
- We’ll have to check Strava for the results, but something tells me Tantrum set a PR for his first 800 because he was so focused on talking about Covid quarantine days and didn’t realize Drebin had him sub-7
- Best thing about track work is that Turnpike can’t make any wrong turns. He crushed it out there today. He was like an addict who just got his fix after a long time away.
- Happy Birthday eve to Mulligan !!!
- Turnpike: “wait you said 37, didn’t you say 38 yesterday at Fartlek?”
- Mulligan: “No, my birthday is tomorrow.”
- Pax: “Ah cool, happy birthday.”
- Mulligan: “Yeah well it still a ‘hate’ birthday”
- What I learned today: Bart Yasso created what came to be aptly named “Yasso’s” as a predictive training mechanism. If you can run 10 Yasso’s in 3min 30secs each then you will be able to run a marathon in 3hrs 30minutes total. Now I can’t do 10 Yasso’s at 3:30 each. But there is a ratio that applies. So I can still train with intervals of 800 meters and predict my finish for a longer race. It got me thinking about other goals. Every January (and sometimes at our birthdays) most of us set several goals. And most of those goals become unaccomplished. There is a lot to why. But one thing is that we don’t have smaller, near-term goals that are predictors to ensure we are marching on the path to that bigger goal out in the future. So be like Bart Yasso and know what you want to do, know how to get there, get after it, and become legendary.
**** in all seriousness if you need help with goals and achieving them, see Jedi. Dude is a miracle worker in coaching in that area.