some morning 200's...

Friday morning:

Since I wasn’t too happy with my Indy Mini time last Saturday as my legs felt very flat during that race I decided to run 10 by 200 meters with 45 second recovery between each for this early, humid morning as I prepare for the ever awesome, nice & Hilly Galena Duathlon on Saturday May 16th 2009. Once again I ran these in our neighborhood as I have the distance tracked out perfectly for accuracy so I ran a 1.4 mile warm-up as I leapt into the first 200 after my body was properly at temperature…below are my repeats time with average & max HR per each:

44sec – AHR 130bpm – MHR 142bpm
44sec – AHR 125bpm – MHR 142bpm
44sec – AHR 133bpm – MHR 146bpm
42sec – AHR 131bpm – MHR 144bpm
41sec – AHR 137bpm – MHR 146bpm
42sec – AHR 137bpm – MHR 146bpm
42sec – AHR 138bpm – MHR 148bpm
42sec – AHR 140bpm – MHR 150bpm
42sec – AHR 139bpm – MHR 149bpm
42sec – AHR 141bpm – MHR 153bpm

Ran a cool-down 1.3 miles afterwards so I covered a total of 4.5 miles in 41:20 with an average HR of 124bpm. My times were very good and consistent especially after the first 3 of them. I felt great out there this morning as I hit my target zone for this distance every time which is a big confidence booster towards next weekends duathlon!

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