Tonight was the last of the Team D Wednesday night workouts on the track at Scottsdale Community College (and was maybe the 3rd one I made all season). These sessions always test us! Tonight was doing “ladders”, climbing those ^#%! ladders.

This is a series where we are asked to run at our “mile” pace (fastest) and do 1 lap (400m), then 2 laps (800), then 3 laps (1200), than 3…. 2…. 1! Up and down (thankfully there is a plateau at the top, not a peak). Oh, and we only get 90 seconds of “recovery” in between.

These are hard!

While by time is nothing to brag about (I did my first lap at 2:17) I really kept on pace the whole ladder pretty much running a 9 minute mile pace, with numbers like 4:33, 6:46, 6;51, 4,28, and 2.01 (I sprinted the last one).

See ya track!

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