Easy club session

I managed to sneak out of work while nobody was looking yesterday (in fact they're all on holiday) to get to the evening club session. There were some faces I hadn't seen in a while: Adrien, Christelle, Madeleine as well as the usuals: Nico, Nick B, Ephrem, Alex and Nabil who turned up a little late.

Michel was taking the session and he announced fartlek. This was a fartlek Michel style: after a 20 minute warm-up we found a loop which we were supposed to run very easily to begin with and then gradually build up speed until we were at threshold. There was a small discussion in the group as to what fartlek really involved so I've looked it up here: Fartlek. Since I'd already run that morning and wasn't looking to tire myself out, I ran easily with Nico and Nick B talking about current training schedules and the next races on the calendar.

It was very relaxing to run this easily in the forest and I thoroughly enjoyed the recovery run. When we got back to the track we saw Gérald and a friend of his after their training session on the track. The friend, Cédric, is a good runner with a 2:36 marathon time. We got to talking about VMA times and I mentioned McMillan, which is definitely my bible for race prediction times. For my 10k PB, it predicts a half-marathon in 1:22:13, a 2k in 6:30 and a 1000m in 3:01, pretty much spot on with my other PBs. What is slightly more disconcerting is that it predicts a 2:53 marathon time and 200m interval session to be run at 35 - 37 seconds. I definitely need to improve my interval sessions and get closer to Nico's times.

Oh yeah, total session was 9k in 55 minutes - told you it was easy !