Turning a Negative into a Positive

Negative Split Intervals with Goodgym Islington

5 runners from Islington, Camden and Bristol completed our first weekly fitness challenge, and recorded their attempts on Strava (#ggislingtonintervals).

The goal for this exercise was to run a measured distance (800m, 1km, half mile etc) over multiple repeats, starting at a nice easy pace, and then gradually speeding up towards the later reps. Each rep should end with 90 sec recovery (full rest or active recovery) before starting the next effort.

Sally ran to Parliament Hill in Hampstead, and ran 800m repeats around the outer perimeter of the athletics track, achieving a nice smooth increase in pace throughout the session.

Dom and Abi get full marks for running not one, but two negative split interval sessions together last week. Both runs were completed in the lovely spring time location of Caledonian Park (one of our favourite GG Islington task locations!).

Goodgym Bristol legend Dave Guest ran his negative split intervals around the lovely rural settings of Rangeworthy, South Gloucester, whilst listening to Groove Armarda's Greatest Hits.

GG Islington regular Becca also took on the challenge whilst running around the Wirral. Really impressive close range negative splits (15 sec between each repeat!).

Trainer Simon ran his negative split intervals in Beckton District Park, on a very warm sunny Saturday morning (and said Hello to a friendly neighbourhood cat called Smudge on his way home).

Well done for completing the challenge, everyone!

Sign up to this week's fitness interval session (100m strides) here!