Chariots of Fire

After 9 sessions last week its a good time to take a complete rest day. Fortunately Film4 was showing Chariots of Fire (my favourite film of all time) on Monday evening, so I managed to get some 'mind training. in :)
If you ever watch it check out Nigel Haver's hurdling technique - how on earth did he win a bronze medal?
On Tuesday I did a track session in Southampton. Pouring with rain, so more mind games involved.

The track session was 16x200m with 30 seconds recovery between runs. One of my favourites.
Target time was 40secs for each rep, which is fairly comfortable and matches what we've been running all winter.
We managed all of them in 38/39/40 seconds, with some pretty good pace running.
I think now is the time to start increasing the speed. I may up the tempo and increase the recovery in future sessions.

Fact of the day: Harold Abrahams (winner of the 100m in Chariots of fire) was the chief timekeeper when Roger Bannister broke the 4 minute mile. I think he's the one in the glasses on the right of the picture. He handed the piece of paper to Norris McWhirter with 3 minutes 59.4 seconds on it.