20160714 Thu 8×2’TR

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Today was scheduled for an 8×2’x2’TR workout. Going back to June of 2012 (6 records), I’ve averaged 1:48.8, 28.6 spm, 4412m, 9.5 spi on this one:

   date | avg pace | spm | distance | spi

06/14/2012 1:49.2 27.0 4396 9.95
07/11/2013 1:48.9 28.3 4404 9.59
04/03/2014 1:48.5 27.3 4423 10.04
08/21/2014 1:47.3 29.3 4473 9.67
01/29/2015 1:48.8 28.9 4411 9.40
07/16/2015 1:49.3 29.5 4391 9.09
01/21/2016 1:49.5 29.8 4385 8.95
Today 1:49.0 30.9 4404 8.75
My confidence was fairly low so I set a target of “less than 1:50”. IOW, I would have been happy with 1:49.9. In the warmup and first piece, confidence improved and I figured I could sustain a cruise speed of 1:50-1:51 which, after working off a six stroke start, should give me a few tenths under 1:50 and so it did. By and large, it felt reasonably good in that I was able to sustain good technique and my legs, though tired, managed to produce a bit of a sprint on the last one. See table below.
As I’ve mentioned before, I have, in my old age, evolved to using an “easier” stroke to accomplish the desired outcome. This means lower SPI, i.e. “trading rate for pace”. I try to fight this and return to the SPI of my younger days but it doesn’t seem to be happening. Maybe I’m kidding myself but I think I’m OK with this approach as long as I don’t get carried away, i.e. limit rates to that which are reasonable for the OTW equivalent of the workout.

This workout closely resembles the classic 8x500m which is a good predictor of 2K performance. As you can see in the table below, pieces average a bit over 550m. So, can I expect to be able to do a 7:20 2K? I feel like I could go faster but maybe I’m being optimistic.

Workout Summary - media/20160714-175403-RP071416-1mo.csv
--|Total|-Total-|--Avg--|Avg-|-Avg-|-Max-|-Avg
--|Dist-|-Time--|-Pace--|SPM-|-HR--|-HR--|-DPS
--|05919|32:00.0|02:42.2|27.1|145.3|181.0|06.8

Workout Details
#-|SDist|-Split-|-SPace-|SPM-|AvgHR|MaxHR|DPS-
00|00550|01:59.7|01:48.8|29.1|96.3|167.0|09.5
01|00276|02:00.0|03:37.4|17.5|130.7|163.0|07.9
02|00549|02:00.0|01:49.3|29.1|147.8|170.0|09.4
03|00212|02:00.0|04:43.0|17.4|131.4|166.0|06.1
04|00550|02:00.0|01:49.1|29.7|156.5|173.0|09.3
05|00217|02:00.0|04:36.5|17.2|129.5|168.0|06.3
06|00550|02:00.0|01:49.1|29.7|160.1|176.0|09.2
07|00216|02:00.0|04:37.8|20.0|129.7|172.0|05.4
08|00550|02:00.0|01:49.1|30.3|149.7|178.0|09.1
09|00122|02:00.0|08:11.8|20.8|121.4|172.0|02.9
10|00550|02:00.0|01:49.1|30.8|159.1|179.0|08.9
11|00169|02:00.0|05:55.0|20.0|135.2|170.0|04.2
12|00551|02:00.0|01:48.9|31.2|168.0|180.0|08.8
13|00195|02:00.0|05:07.7|21.5|136.3|175.0|04.5
14|00554|02:00.0|01:48.3|32.5|164.2|181.0|08.5
15|00108|02:00.0|09:15.6|13.2|132.9|178.0|04.1
https://sites.google.com/site/mcguirkmike2/training-schedule/2016/july/0714-thu-8x2-tr/071416(1).png

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