Saturday track - the benefits of training with others

Went down to the track on Saturday morning, but unfortunately it had been booked for a junior league meeting and there were hundreds of kids around. Instead I joined Tony's group for some 200s on the grass.
His group were doing 8x200 with 200 slow walk recovery. I was after more speed and less endurance so decided to do alternate runs with more recovery. So 4x200 8 min recovery.

Did the first 2 on my own in 27 seconds, then hooked up with the boys for the last 2. Did both in 25 which I was very pleased with. Amazing how having someone to run against can lift your performance.
Hopefully this will be the case next weekend when I take on the French and Belgians!