Mile Time Trial.

MTT - cubberly fields, Saturday, June 5 2010.

The long run was canceled this weekend. We had the mile time trials instead.
S was running some temperature and had to miss this. BP, Bharat and me reached cubberly at around 8:05 am. We were all part of team # 4. Some 16 of us in that team. Team #1 was running and warming up already.
We ran 2 laps warmed up and then we stretched for a bit. Then we were ready for the trial. So, we had to run 4 laps, non stop, as fast as we could, faster than the long runs atleast. We will be timed. Based on these times we will be categorized into groups.
We started off after coach char advising us on how we should not kill ourselves over this. Somehow us lining up and all that talk raised my heart rate so much, totally reminded me of all the races we used to have in school. Not so good for a race where you shud be running as fast as you can!! So first half was the first lap was on a real elevated heart rate, then I eased into the run. I approximately took 2:20 mins per lap. In the second lap I had to stop to tie my laces! damn 6 seconds gone a waste.
One guy in our team, real fast runner lapped me towards the end of third lap! what the...
I ran the fourth lap the hardest and finished with 8:59 minutes. Not bad I thought. BP took 8:58 and Bharath around 7:50 minutes.

We cooled down - warmed down as coach char would put it for 2 more laps and then stretched and left.
Picked up breakfast from Madras cafe and headed back home.