Bank Holiday Monday saw me doing 6 x 600m intervals. I had set up pace of 7 to 7:30 min/mi, but I just can't keep to that speed. Have to go faster! Average pace for each interval was around 6:55 min/mi. HR recovered quickly too. Wish I could keep these intervals up for longer though.
Tuesday madam wanted to go to the track so we did. She cycled round on her bike and I ran a rough tempo session. About 2.75 miles at around 7 min/mi. It was good fun and madam enjoyed herself apart from the drama queen session on the way back home when her bike fell over about fifty million times!
Wednesday - long run day. Did 14 miles today in 2:10. Was pleased cos managed to keep HR in zone 4 just about all the way. So pleased I can run further than half marathon distance. Legs felt bad at about 7 miles, but then seemed to get their second wind and by the end I felt that I could have run further but didn't want to push it.
Friday was a 45 min session with hills. Ran around the streets near home. I had no idea how steep some of those hills are. Managed quite a few though, but suffered for it later with very tired legs!
Saturday went to gym for a change. Did 2k row warm up in 9:30 mins, sit ups on ball and short weights session. Then went on treadmill to attempt interval session. Had hoped to follow a session which would help me be sub 40 10k by end of year, but after first interval I realised there was no way that was happening now! It was tough going and the hot weather didn't help, but I did some short intervals at 14kmph and 14.5kmph before I gave up. Not like me to give up, but I was literally dripping and just couldn't run any further. Never mind, everyone has off days. Did really stupid thing though. My left calf has been quite tight this week so I thought a session in the spa would help to relax the muscle. Nice thought, but oh my goodness that was so not the right thing to do on a hot day after a hard gym session. I felt decidely odd the rest of the day through dehydration!
Long run today as well. Set up Garmin for 15 miles and set off. Ran up to Barwick and through to Garforth. Then thought I needed to add a bit of distance so tried to find a route that would bring me out by The Crusader. Oops. Took a totally different road and ended up by East Garforth station. Couldn't see a road way out, but found a footpath that I thought would bring me out a bit further up near Saville Brothers. No no no! Actually ended up on road leading to Aberford (after a bit of a panic that I hadn't got a clue where I was and the miles were stacking up). No footpath so had to run half on road half through long grass, nettles and thistles. Eventually found roundabout and headed back towards Saville Brothers. At least I knew where I was by this point. My legs were suffering from hop running through dodgy plants and I knew that my distance was going to be over what I had planned. Nearly gave up and asked Auntie for a lift, but decided to keep going. And got home - eventually. 16.65 miles!!! After that though I know I could run a marathon even if it wasn't a fantastic time. One for the future though...
Total mileage 4/5 to 10/5: 41.08 miles on Garmin and about 5 miles at gym. Total 46 miles. I cannot believe that I ran that far last week!
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