learning from the past

one of the mistakes i think i made last year was trying to tackle 1500 meter races stright away off winter training. the consequence of this was my leags very quickly had to get used to running at speeds that were way faster than what i was used to and i think that was a major contributory factor to the fact that the second half of the summer wasn't as good as the first. my legs were just too badly beaten up. this year the plan is to tackle more 3000 meter races before moving on to the shorter stuff and so far so good. last night while the 800 meter runners were doing a session of 500, 400, 300 x 2 off longish recoveries the 1500 and 3000 meter runners were doing a session of 800 short recovery 400, 3 times for the 1500 people and 4 times for the 3000 meter people, which amounted to a hardcore of me and a n other. it will be even more lonely on thursday as the students will be resting up ready for the busa championships over the bank holiday weekend. i on the other hand will be watching bristol city v preston north end on the sunday, probably looking at cars on the friday and i will probably watch about 2 dozen races and participate in one on the monday, starting with the newest race on the calendar, the run bristol 10k, which i would of been doing my self had it not been for the clash, and a series of 800m 1500m and 3000m races at millfield as well as a swimming gala which is usually entertaining. plus there is the possibility of a game of tennis or golf on saturday so that will be a weekned full of sporting action!