Thursday Speedwork - Got 'er Done

I met Steve and Brian at the junior high track this evening for our normal 400 repeats. Brian and I changed up the workout two weeks ago and we're all loving it. I've explained before but in the past we did 8 fast 400s, with a jogging lap for recovery. Occasionally we'd add a 9th 400 but always felt like we should do more. But our egos wouldn't let us dial the pace back enough to add 400s. So two weeks ago Brian and I decided to do a walking recovery of about 75 meters (2 minutes or so), and we increased the number of 400s from 8 to 12, a 50% increase in speedwork volume. Our total milage stayed about the same, we've increased the number of fast 400s, and our lap times haven't suffered. Because of the conditions today it was tougher than when Steve and I did speedwork last week, but we just had to dig a little deeper. All three of us put in a solid workout. As always, we took turns leading the 400s. Here were my splits:

1:23, 1:18, 1:19, 1:17, 1:19, 1:19, 1:19, 1:19, 1:18, 1:19, 1:19, 1:11.

On that last 400, which is typically all-out and every man for himself, Steve and I both did a 1:11 while Brian clocked about a 1:06.