1200's at the track

104 degrees/5:30 pm/ track workout.
These are the days to live for. Who else in their right mind would be out in this weather?
1200's today.
1200X4 with a 2min rest then 5X200 with 200m jog.
Total miles 9.5

miles for week 42.5 goal by Saturday 60.

tomorrow 5 easy
Sat 14 daniels modified lr


Ran behind Des, Paul and Rudy today for the work out. G wanted 82-85's for the 400's, which equates to 4:10 - 4:25 1200.

here are the splits w/ HR

1. 4.12 AHR 176
2. 4.15 AHR 175
3. 4.10 AHR 177
4. 4.09 AHR 176

What was surprising to me was the AHR- lower than I would have thought given the pain I was in for the last few. Again, the leaning helped for the last 600m of the last repeat and I felt very relaxed, but I have no leg speed. So i wonder if i am setting an artifical threshold for myself that is based on pain vs my actual Vo2 max. I am at the low end of VO2 max workout with these values. Maybe i need to push myself into more pain and see how that equates to HR? I will be doing a VO2 / lactate test at UT in a few weeks so maybe they will have some answers.