We hit the track again for the monthly 1600m challenge. This time Ari was running with us. He is a College level runner, so pretty quick despite his protestations that it wasn't track season and he wasn't at peak physical fitness. Ari worked out that for me to not be lapped by him I had to do under 6 minutes 20 seconds. As it turned out I just managed to avoid being lapped, but only by about ten metres or so. Ari is the shirtless runner directly behind me (I am the one crossing the finish line). I did a 6:16 for the 1600m which was a nine second improvement on my last time. Ari did 4:51. Which is amazing.

We have all been knocking seconds off our times, myself, Lukas, and Phil have all taken close to a minute off our times since we have been doing this. My first run when we did this was 7:08, so I have done 52 second drop in the space of two months. (more)