Track Day - 07.28.10 - Wednesday (3.5 miles)

Coach Darrell introduced to me and the 20 other TNT runners the Yasso 800's and the theory behind them. The Yasso 800’s theory is this…if your marathon goal is 5 hours, you run a 800 in 5 minutes, then take a 5 minute recovery. Build yourself up to where you can do this 10 times. If you combine this with your long runs on the weekend the theory is that you will be able to make your goal.

We started last night with the half marathoners running 4 and the full marathoners running 6. Coach advised we are going to build up and attempt to get up to 10 for the full marathon respectively. Both my pace buddy Andrea and I were happy with ourselves. On average, our pace after 800 meters were in the 4:34 range and we were able to finish our 6th Yasso 800 pretty strongly.

Another good track night had by all!