Successful Intervals (for once)

I finally hit the mark running the intervals I first attempted nearly a month ago. I think it'll be good to continue integrating intervals into my workouts; I could feel that my legs were locking up while my lungs felt relatively fine. This tells me my conditioning is progressing but my legs could use some strengthening. Here's the goals/results.

200 - 35s
400 - 90s
800 - 3:00
400 - 90s
200 - 35s

Results:

200 - 36s
400 - 84s
800 - 3:00
400 - 73s
200 - 33s


I intentionally went out slow on the first two-hundred because I wanted to make a conscious effort to just hit the mark and do nothing more at the beginning - if I had any extra energy I could spend it on the back end of the interval work. It worked and now that I think about, this is how I ran intervals back in the day as well. I had to really hold back on the first 400 and still was way under goal-time, the 800 was perfectly hard, the final 400 was just all out as was the final 200.

Mike