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Phew A Rest Day!

Yesterday I was knackered before it even started. A few restless nights due to being cold, alone and TOTM had started to take their toll. Wednesday is speedwork day and I knew that if I saved it for the tready at home I either wouldn' t start or would give up due to being knackered and feeling pants. So I took my kit to work.

First off I took the wrong shoes! I grabbed my off road ones. Now I did Abingdon (!!) in these so didn't think much of it. I went down the canal which is about 50:50 road and track. Today I am realising that if you were support shoes that changing and running on road does make a difference with a slight sore patch on my leg :-(

Monday's run had been fab. Friday's had been great too. So I really should not have expected speedwork to be great! It wasn't. It was really hard. It was windy and the GPS wasn't happy. At one time I was running at 59mm pace! But I did improve, 5mins later I was doing 1:59mm pace! See I'm good!!

Anyway that was another 4m in the bag in just under 50mins giving an average pace just a few seconds slower than Monday. Oh and I did a few 30secs full out efforts during which time the GPS (and I do believe it this time as it was behaving by now!) said that my average pace was less than 7:50mm pace for each one! Now I know that was only 30secs which is a LOOOOOONG way off any kind of race distance but it does show my legs can run fast! So there is hope for me after all!

Anyway today is rest day and tomorrow I run. So today I have to pop to Sainsbury to get some stuff as apparently Gnome and I are baking tomorrow night ready to see the gang on Saturday (hope we don't make them ill!!)

Comments

WildWill said…
Enjoy the rest day Pix - our boddies need them
9:13 AM, January 12, 2006
Leon said…
OK - just a couple of things to say
I'll be brief
;o)

"..4m in the bag in just under 50mins giving an average pace just a few seconds slower than Monday.."

Now that sounds like another good run to me Pix - it may not have felt like it, and you might have had to work harder for all sorts of reasons - the point is you realised a CBA attack was coming on and you did something about it. You got out there, and you worked you little bod hard
Bloody fantastic (oops, sorry)

"...Oh and I did a few 30secs full out efforts.....my average pace was less than 7:50mm... "
Nice
:o)
You are right though.. it does show that your legs can run fast...!! And running faster (or slower) is a bit like driving a car. At first there are a Zillion things to think about all at the same time - but in time it becomes second nature. Your legs, and mind, are used to running at a certain pace... SO... if you can get them into the habit of running faster - by challenging them like you did here, then it follows that you will be able to run more quickly, for longer, and it wiill feel normal for you.

I think you have done really well here Pix. And there are more positives to take from this session than you realise.

:o)

(said I'd be brief..)
:-D
10:31 AM, January 12, 2006
RobW said…
I'd agree with Leon. If you can do runs like that when boarding a CBA then things ain't that bad.
2:53 PM, January 12, 2006
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