Track

Today: 10km
Week: 21km
Month: 98km
Year: 728km

I can highly recommend Ice cream as 'fuel' for your next run... it was Vanilla by the way! I was still feeling stiff and as wobbly so nicely described it "dead legged". I headed out the door with the stars shining and got to the park and it was still black. I did my 3km warm up and it felt really nice and cool. Thankfully by the end of the 3km I was feeling a lot less stiff and sore and did a good stretch before the session. I had 2x 1600m reps with a 3min active recovery and then a 1000m rep. It was a smaller group today.... but the usual suspects were there all looking fit and rearing to go for 6ft! Mental note to self- do not stir up the 6ft'ers who are only doing 2 reps and will then have time to heckle from the side line :-) Although good mental training..... tune out that evil DJ :-) There was not a lot of oomph in my drills and strides and thought I will just take the reps easy. Steve was looking very fit and strong today.... even his strides/drills were great! Once we got started I felt suprisingly ok and decided to try and hang onto Allison and Gill. We got into a good rhythm and I was able to keep them not too far in front- although Allison did hurt her ankle on the weekend. I found the 1000m tough ... needed to dig in to maintain my pace. The last 200ms I really wanted to stop... had my ugly run face on and just pumped the arms determined to get under 4:30min. Looking at my times from last month I have taken 30 secs off my 1600m reps... so very happy with that! Now off for my massage.... BLISS!

1600m- 7:38 (1km split 4:42)
1600m- 7:17 (1km split 4:35)
1000m- 4:25