Fast and furious to lift the clouds

Managed to clock up a fair few miles this week too and the weather has been really lovely.

Monday - short (2.91) recovery run after Sunday's outing. I was going to make it a rest day, but I felt that I needed to get out and stretch my legs. It worked and they felt much better.

Tuesday - madam and I went up to the track again. She rode round for a while and then skipped happily in the sunshine while I did an interval session alongside about 5 other people. The sun brought out all the runners! The intervals were 5 x 800m and the fastest was 6:28 and the slowest 7:02. I was pleased with my efforts.

Wednesday - my long run was split with a visit to the doctor so I did 2.75 miles then another 6 or so to make it 9.23 with an average pace of 8:54. I was pleased again to be able to keep my heart rate in zone 4 for most of the run.

Friday - a 40 min fartlek session. I was feeling a little tired, but still managed some pretty fast intervals where I even hit 5:41 min/mi! Friday night I was feeling low, so rather than sit at home, I put on my trainers and hit the streets. My Garmin has been slow picking up satellites this week (although it might be down to my impatience waiting for it to find them before setting off...) so I had to stop after 5 mins to reset it. I was running very quickly and it didn't pick them up for ages so I knew the distance and time was going to be out by quite a bit. I have never run so fast - there were almost people leaping out of the way! When I got back and measured the distance on mapmyrun it came out at 4.06 miles in 28:44 meaning 7:07 min/mi. Wow that's fast! It would mean 21:45 for 5k and 45:21 for 10k. I CAN do it!

Saturday - long run again. Took it easy and did 9.17 miles averaging 9:02 min/mi. It was nice to just run with no target except heart rate and I ended up running through the woods near where I grew up. I wanted to stop and pick bluebells! My legs were very tired and I hit my usual 7 miles I can't keep going bit before recovering. I am going to have to be careful with my knees though - they are very sore today.

Total miles 11/5 - 17/5 - 51.93 miles...