(upbeat music)
- All right, the day has come, 2K test time.
The goal is to be consistent
and just be able to move through this.
I've been sick for like three weeks,
so we're gonna see how that plays out.
I think we're gonna be okay,
but it's definitely I'm feeling it
in the chest already and I just got a flu shot.
This is the baseline though.
No excuses, I'm just getting it done.
(gasping)
I think I averaged a circuit of 27
and stayed under pressure.
I was really cognizant of being connected
over trying to out power it.
It paid off pretty well.
I was holding like 1:42 for the first thousand.
Oh, my legs.
I've got a lot of like fran throat right now.
I was holding like 1:42 for the first thousand
and then shifted after the thousand
to hit like 1:40s.
And with 300 left moved it down like 1:38.
Then with 200 left, 1:37, and with 100, 1:36.
I kinda solidified the average.
I'm gonna run the drag factor up to 1:06
just for the record.
6:37.1.
(gasping)
That felt good.
I held, I think I averaged like 27.
That's so great.
I'm gonna feel like this for a while.
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Again my strategy on that was
to come out, hit my sprint start as decent as I could feel,
and not over the top on that.
Usually I go pretty hard and I held back just a hair
so that I could settle in sooner.
So I started like at 122,
and then had the 15 or start at 16
popped up to 142, and held it at 142 for the first thousand
and then crossed that thousand meter mark
which is the mental barrier for everyone,
and then dropped it down,
and slowly negative split the second 1K.
For me really it was like surviving the first thousand
and know that I'm gonna survive,
and then really focus and kick it in the second thousand
when emotionally it's normally getting very tough,
but this time it was all about staying focused, engaged.
All in all, it felt really good until like 500 left,
and then like the cold started making my throat burn
and my lack of working out for two weeks
I started to feel my scaps really
get tired from trying to hold my body on a handle.
But man, all in all, I'm really happy with that to baseline.
16 weeks, I've got to improve it
and race again in March.
So let's see where it gets from here.
A fun project and also a real good ego check
and a big old slice of humble pie.
I've got to get that 2k test in and we can go from there.
I'm pushing through that barrier.
Give it a try, guys, and let us know how it goes.