Old School Tempo + Bad Math


The OTB Convergence brought the finest runners of all Isotope plus YHC together at Ludicrous Speed this morning. A structured tempo was on the docket and since no one else had a better plan (or a plan at all beyond “run”) we decided to use mine. Here’s the story of the men who climbed Tempo Mt. today.

  • 1 x 1600 – warm-up/easy
  • 2 x 800’s – recovery – off/sprint – on
  • 4 x 400’s – recovery – off/sprint – on
  • 8 x 200’s – recovery – off/sprint – on
  • 16 x 200’s – recovery – off/sprint – on

Everyone figured it out, but more importantly, everyone figured out a better way to explain it than YHC led with. The best way, I might add, came from YHC late in the workout (but who really cares, right?) which is below.

  • 1600 – 1 mile
  • 800’s – 1 mile
  • 400’s – 1 mile
  • 200’s – 1 mile
  • 100’s – 1 mile

1 on 1 off recovery/sprints (next time)

Moleskin:

  • Thanks to LF & HB for bringing the fire from across town. They lead the group in pace along with Vandelay – props to all three.
  • Tammy Fae, you’re a workhorse
  • Calypso, we did the same workout but leapfrogged because one of started on rec while the other was at sprint. (next time we should have a plan – recovery is better with a battle buddy.)
  • Free Pass and Stray solved al past, present, and future financial crises and got in a solid work out. #leadingtowin
  • Ping found something in the lobe of his right lung that was left there in 2015. He got whatever it was out projectile style and produced a more than sufficient amount of joules. Solid. (The effort not the lugie)

Thank you for the opportunity to lead this workout. We accomplished 4 – 5 miles of sprints and recovery and more importantly beat the demons of fartsackus once again.

Q’s are open at Luda and if you haven’t yet or haven’t in a while, step up and lead. You’ll be glad you did and so with the rest of us.

 

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