Showing posts with label IM Austria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IM Austria. Show all posts

Monday, January 10, 2011

Rule of Ten and Yazoos

Today was scheduled for a Lads who lunch swim and treadmill reps. The LwL went pretty well besides only doing the lunch bit as the 10x200 at 3.45 was a bit intimidating for a Monday, but that will get done later in the week.

The treadmill session was a Yazoo one. Yazoos were named after an American Bert Yassoo who claimed that running 10x800m with 2 mins recovery at a certain pace was a good predictor of marathon potential eg. if the 800s are all at 2mins 40sces then you could predict a 2hrs 40mins marathon (assuming you've done the endurance bit too). My 800s at 1% treddy gradient were 2:55 with a walking 2 min recovery, but I'm guessing that a 2:55 marathon is afairly lkong shot in Austria off the 112 mile bike.

As the LwL swim got ditched, my guilty conscience dragged me to the peak for a penance swim set including 10x100 so that'll do for a start to the week.