Monday
I decided to sign up for the Battersea Park Self Transcendence 5k race (http://uk.srichinmoyraces.org/races/london) that started at 7pm. This was the first time I was doing an evening race and all I spent the day doing was thinking about running and how I could PB. This race was a very clubby race. There were club shirts of all different colours getting ready to run fast. I was slightly nervous about this but I got myself right into the middle of the pack ready for the 2 laps of Battersea. This was a really nice race and route. I got myself into a great metronome pace and along with the heavy panter behind I plodded onto PB with 26.10! I was delighted and so was my heavy panter. She used me as a pacer and came up to me after thanking me for getting her a PB. She was so happy which made the not getting a medal an okay thing. So not getting a medal meant, I needed one....sign up for another race, sure why not! Bring on Sunday.
Tuesday
Now for something new-yoga. 1hour of yoga at 6pm....was a bit boring and I think I'll be doing it from home in future. I need to make a promise to myself that I will set aside some time for yoga at least twice a week! After yoga I did a nice 2.5miles of intervals. I have tried this once before but this time I feel like I aced it. Maybe it was that yoga.....hmmm...
Wednesday
Up in the morning and 3.2miles at 8.28min/miles of a general run was tracked! I felt great running it and I had another metronome pace. Maybe this yoga thing isn't so bad after all.....So did about an hour of yoga and foam rolling later. I have decided to try and take care of my left leg and IT band that started to ache at the last couple of weeks of Prague training.
Thursday
Day 5 of the running streak and due to the race being on Sunday I decided to do my long run today. 4miles turned into 4.63miles at a 8.30min/miles. I felt great and like I could keep going but going to stick to my training and was conscious that I have done a fair bit of running this week. Note to self...more yoga.
Friday
Day 6. I finished the streak with a tempo run. Now these comfuse me a bit so decided to go on the treadmill to help me time it better. 5 mins warm up (I have finally come to the conclusion that I should warm up a lot more!) and then 20minutes of 7.5mph running followed by a cool down of 5 minutes brought my pace to 8.16min.miles of a 3.63mile run! I think this fast training is working.
Saturday
Rest Day (finally!)
Sunday
Race Day. http://www.breastcancercampaign.org/page.aspx?pid=767 Boys v Girls 5km race around Southwark Park. This was the first race my boyfriend was ever undertaking and I was so excited for it. It also happened to be his birthday which probably made me a very mean girlfriend buuuuut he was going to get a medal right? :) So we kept a great metronome pace of 8.26min/miles which meant I may PB again but wasn't hoping on it. Reis kept the pace which was great and even when he got a little tired at about 2.6miles he kept going. Enough that when I yelled sprint his long legs took him right across the finish line ahead of me! Well I had to let him win on his birthday right? Yeah that was it.... ;) But even with being beaten by a boy we had got fantastic times! My Garmin recorded 25.36! PBing twice in one week, yay! For a first timer as well I thought this was a fantastic time! Well done Reis!
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| Reis and Me after the race! |
Week 1 of sub 1hour 10k went fantastic! 20miles logged in. The second longest mileage week of the year!
Roll on week 2! Have the gear bag ready and may do a tempo run tonight. :)
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