17-12-2009, 08:42 PM
Hope you are/will be having a good time in Fin... It's been almost 10 years as I stood on the skis last time (and also the first...) 
I just came back from my first interval session. Managed to run all 5 K's. I had a few problems because of snow. First of all, the track was closed, because there was like 40-50cm of snow all over. So I had to do training on the walking yard near river. Today it was sunny, so the snow started melting, but then in the evening it was very cold and the thin layer of ice covered the pavement. However, decided to run hard. Only problem is that I ran too fast, cause I thought that I'll be running too slow. Many more times I had to make myself run slower, then to run faster.
I made split times, and I also made splits at each 500m of each interval... Here they are:
Warm up: 3.25K - 18:02
Intervals:
8:13 (2:00 - 2:05 - 2:05 - 2:03)
8:32 (2:03 - 2:12 - 2:08 - 2:09)
8:21 (2:01 - 2:07 - 2:05 - 2:08)
8:28 (2:04 - 2:09 - 2:07 - 2:08)
8:27 (2:01 - 2:09 - 2:09 - 2:08)
Rests: 90sec
Warm down: 1.25 - 6:42
Was this session ok, or I should make this 2K times closer to each other?
Since I'm running almost all of my long runs over hilly terrain, is it ok to do so, or I should do the workout all on flat? Those are not big hills, around 300m of climb over 15km...
I just came back from my first interval session. Managed to run all 5 K's. I had a few problems because of snow. First of all, the track was closed, because there was like 40-50cm of snow all over. So I had to do training on the walking yard near river. Today it was sunny, so the snow started melting, but then in the evening it was very cold and the thin layer of ice covered the pavement. However, decided to run hard. Only problem is that I ran too fast, cause I thought that I'll be running too slow. Many more times I had to make myself run slower, then to run faster.
I made split times, and I also made splits at each 500m of each interval... Here they are:
Warm up: 3.25K - 18:02
Intervals:
8:13 (2:00 - 2:05 - 2:05 - 2:03)
8:32 (2:03 - 2:12 - 2:08 - 2:09)
8:21 (2:01 - 2:07 - 2:05 - 2:08)
8:28 (2:04 - 2:09 - 2:07 - 2:08)
8:27 (2:01 - 2:09 - 2:09 - 2:08)
Rests: 90sec
Warm down: 1.25 - 6:42
Was this session ok, or I should make this 2K times closer to each other?
Since I'm running almost all of my long runs over hilly terrain, is it ok to do so, or I should do the workout all on flat? Those are not big hills, around 300m of climb over 15km...