A NEW Interval Workout for Me: 5x1000
>> Thursday, May 22, 2025
My coach posted this last week for the team workout:
5x100 sounded fun. 5x1000... a little less fun.
I was aware that a 2:40 800 would be same pace as a 3:20 1000. And being when I do 800 repeats, I usually start around 2:40 and drop to the lower 2:30s, I figured 3:20 was a good place to start my 1000s... if I could. My opening 1000 was a bit slower at 3:22, but then #2 was faster at 3:18. I figured I wouldn't be able to negative split them ALL, but I wondered if I could keep the rest under 3:20. But after making #3 a bit faster yet, then I DID start to think that maybe I could keep the negative split going. I suffered hard, and I got a perfect negative split (only because I hit the final 200 of the final interval HARD):
1000 = 400, 400, 200 meter splits
3:22.0 = 1:22, 1:20, 0:38
3:18.4 = 1:19, 1:19, 0:38
3:16.2 = 1:19, 1:18, 0:38
3:15.0 = 1:18, 1:18, 0:37
3:14.7 = 1:18, 1:19, 0:36
Whew! By the hair of my chinny chin chin!!
In this Garmin map, I started at the lower left, ran 2.5 laps until the upper right, then cut across the track. My water bottle was parked along all the blue squiggles where I got my sips, and then I walked to the start line again to repeat:
I like I how I cut across the track sooner and sooner as I went on. I was POOPED.
You can see the easier dip in the first interval.