Speed Work - Parloff Relay at Thompson Arena

Tonight we did a Parloff Relay at the track. This is where you team up with a partner and you each do 400 m. laps, passing the 'baton' (a pencil) to your team member after each 400 m. lap. My team member tonight was Glen and he was going to target 1:40 per 400 m. lap, but he ended up blowing that time out of the water. I was targeting 1:30 per lap and was very close to that time. Here are our splits:

1:30 (me)
1:33 (Glen)
1:31 (me)
1:31 (Glen)
1:29 (me)
1:32 (Glen)
1:29 (me)
1:31 (Glen)
1:29 (me)
1:30 (Glen)
1:29 (me)
1:31 (Glen)
1:31 (me)
1:32 (Glen)
1:31 (me)
1:31 (Glen)
1:28 (me)

My average was 1:29.53 which I was very happy with. It compares very well to last February (1:32.62) and last July (1:32.88) -- so I'm 3 seconds faster than a year ago. In July 2011 (before the hamstring injury), my times averaged (1:30:62) and after a summer of training I averaged 1:23 per lap on September 6 2011 -- two months before my personal best marathon. So I have quite a ways to go before I hit my personal best lap times, but I've definitely made progress over the past year.