ES Marks track

Abra and I did a track session at ES Marks last week. He’s been doing it for a number of weeks now, so we did one of his sessions. After a warm up we set up shoes on the grass in the middle and did shuttle runs. This meant running 5m and back, 10m back, 15m back and 20m back. We walked to the last shoe and back for recovery. We did 6 shuttles.

Then we moved up to the stands and took on the stairs. They were pretty big, not vertically, but horizontally. We went up in a number of ways, each 3 times in a row. There were hops, jumps, and other combinations, but the last was a killer. Feet together, jumping up a step and back down 3 times before you could go up to the next one. Endurance and gross motor skills are seriously tested. I stumbled a few times near the top.

We then went down and did 6 more shuttles on the paddock.

Last of all were some sprints. We owned the straight, doing 10 x 50m sprints. I haven’t run on tartan for quite a while, but it felt good. During each 50 it was possible to focus on different parts of your running, as there is no unpredictability in the surface.