some 800m intervals [Exhaust Running Report, September 9th 2020]

It's acrobatics training time again. For the first time this season the kids gathered at the gymnastics center GIB in Ljubljana Šiška. Meaning I had a good hour of time to go for a run.

I decided to have a not very demanding interval training on the track. As a warm up I ran to the nearest stadium which is accidentally Slovenian athletics center.

You can see it on the map where I did the rounds.

The plan was to do some 800 meters intervals in 3:50 with 400 meters jog. Plus warm up and cool down, of course.

When I got to the stadium I met two running friends there, Toni and Matjaž. Toni is an ultra runner and was cooling down after a long run.

Matjaž is an established masters runner with great results in his age group. When I got there he was finishing his 800 m session with times of 2:57 for two laps.

As a cool down he did 5 quick rounds with me. We talked all the time during the run so I had enough breath to run faster, I suppose.

We were so immersed in the discussion that we mistakenly ran three laps for one interval. Even better.

On the graph bellow you can well see how related are running power and pace when you are running on a track or without any climbs.

Some more data from the Coros watch and app.

Heart rate graph doesn't show the pace change as vividly as the power graph does.

Heart rate zones were more in the upper drawer which is very rare for my runs.

Training effect was decent for anaerobic zone, according to the watch.

When the data got automagically transferred from watch to Strava it was synced to Training Peaks too. I immediately got the mail with the following content.