After Friday's successful but disappointing effort I figured I might as well just knock off the 1K target too because it was pretty much the goal pace for the 1500 anyway. And I figured even at the 95% that I am following this cold and with tired legs it'd still be 'easy'. Problem was weather was due to crap out Tuesday for quite a few days ... sooo ... rather than wait for Friday it was time to give up Monday rest day!
Having said that, it was still really windy down the back straight, but thankfully a 1K TT only requires 2 passes of the back straight and 3 of the home straight! :) I warmed up without the chest strap because I didn't want any negative thoughts if my HR was too high and after some strides down the back straight I just basically went for it. I consciously held back this time because I knew I only needed 39.5s 200s and every time I go out too fast. Yep, 18s for the first 200 ... sigh ... pulled it back a lot and went through 200 in 37s. Kept it under control and 400 was in 77s, so I was holding 20s 200s which was ok cause I had 3s in the bank. The 2nd 400s felt pretty controlled and I went through 800 in 2:35 so a 77-78s lap. Fine. I knew I had 42s for the last 200 so unless the wheels fell off it'd be fine. Held it steady around the bend and then just went for it in the last 100m. My form was going a bit and I figured I was probably going to do 40s for the last 200 and hit 3:15 but stopped the clock at 3:13.65 so the last 200 was 38s or so. Not bad. Certainly the easiest of the breaking50 goals IMO. Now, for the 800 and 2:31 ... eep!
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