The dreaded 'double pyramid' .

Sounds like some weird instrument of torture.

It is.

It was a cold and windy night at the university track.
Goldie the Brittany watched from her warm position amongst the tracksuit tops under the judges' stand as we 'warmed' up.

The 'pyramid' is a training session where you run intervals of increasing distance, and then go 'down the other side' - like a pyramid. In this case - after a long warmup and stretching exercises - we ran a 200, 400, 800, 1600 (the metric mile), 800, 400 and 200 with two minutes rest in between each repeat.

Then we did it over.

Then it started raining. Then we packed Goldie into the car and drove home to a warm bath and a warm house. And a hot dinner.