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Time yourself. Time your total practice time. Time your intervals. How long does it take you to do a set of ten one-hundreds. How long was your rest?
Timing yourself gives you a reference to measure your progress. You can see your improvement in your race times, but practice times are also one of the best gauges of how well you are doing and how far you have come.