The Rare "Positive Split Workout"

After being too lazy to get over to the North Shore for Wednesday night's climb up Seymour, I dedicated myself to putting in a real solid effort on what was scheduled as some hill repeats followed by short track intervals last night.

Unfortunately, Andrew announced that this would be a positive split workout, which I accepted with less than the appropriate amount of dread. You see, three short hill repeats, one long hill repeat, four 400's and four 200's appear on the surface to be not that bad. Very manageable even. But when the instruction is "take the first one so hard that you start to throw up a little and feel the lactic acid pooling up already", you're in trouble. This was the "how long can you keep going after it hurts" practice.

I had a horrible practice. The nausea started in the third hill repeat. The plain old stomach cramping started on the long fourth repeat. Dizziness kicked in somewhere around the third 400 m repeat at which point I waved the white flag and skipped the fourth. The 200's were a sufferfest. And the 3 km "cool down" run back to the community centre was just a survival march as my stomach continued its rebellion. I'm glad I went out and hurt. I wish my stomach had co-operated better. And I'm going to be far more wary next time Andrew says the words "positive split tonight".