Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Mr Pig presents...the do-it-yourself track session

Mr Pig and the surveyor's wheel

Hi, Mr Pig here again with Susie's latest acquisition: a surveyor's wheel (purchased on eBay for £16), and a can of line-marking paint. She wanted to do a track session, but with the nearest track over 10 miles away, she decided to mark out the perimeter of the local cricket pitch with 100-metre markers.

I think she's taking this jogging thing way too seriously!

So tonight's session, on a perimeter of 387m, just shy of a 400m track, she did a session of 10*300m with an 87m walk recovery, followed by 5*100m sprints with a 100m walk back. The times were as follows:
300m reps:
74s
71s
70s
71s
70s
70s
71s
69s
70s
69s

69s is 6:10/mile

100m reps:
21s
21s
20s
19s
18s

18s is 4:49/mile - that's the fastest Susie has ever run!

Susie reckons she had a fun session, setting her up nicely for a 5000m track race next week. How is that fun? Sounds like hard work to me!

2 comments:

Highway Kind said...

Who could say you are taking this jogging too seriously?

After reading this blog and and your comments on hard training,I must say that I am well impressed with what you have acheived.

Keep it up

Jesse Mcgraw said...

LOL! I didn't know that surveying equipment can be used in physical fitness. Yeah, I think you're taking this jogging thing too seriously, Susie. But at least you know that you're getting accurate results every time, that the exercise you're doing is not just some random run on the sidewalk. See, you even came up with statistics there. Good job, Mr. Pig!