Marcus’s Coronavirus test came back negative so we were free to train, but he was still feeling under the weather (his temperature had been over 40 so couldn’t say he was swinging the lead) so I headed down to training alone. With my mind on such things I forgot about all the sounds of heavy rain overnight. Well on arrival, as you can tell from the photo – this is the field where we warm up and then start our long run. Neither of those we going to happen……
So we worked out a new course, a few recces disguised as warm-up jogs did the trick. We found a new route that worked out at 2.32 km – only about 100m longer than our regular route, surprisingly close when you’re not measuring and looking for suitable trees as markers.
My run wasn’t great, I could blame the slippery conditions but I think it was more of an average day. The park is quite hilly, I’ve decided I need to improve my running uphill, that’s been a real weakness. I focused on keeping tall and getting some knee drive, not just plodding up. That part went well but I couldn’t get my time much below 5 mins pr km throughout. Crossing the final bridge I met two large groups of people heading in opposite directions – I ended up just walking across, too late to make anything up really. 11:25 was the time in the end. I’d like to forget it but I’ve committed to recording it here 🙂
Then it was onto the hills – 2 sets of 4x120m. That bit felt better, Yet again I’d forgotten to put my longer spikes in. Katy and James for company up the hills. A good session in the end,
