Diary Of A Road Runner

5k Recovery Run – Fairly Sunny – 27m 31s

I’ve had 8 rest days out of the last 9 days, and the only run out of that was my PB race – so I figured it was high time I got back out on the road before I lost my motivation altogether, as it would be all to easy to sink into lazy habits!

Planned a 5k jog around random streets. It felt a bit cold to start with but soon warmed up and the sun seemed to be beating down.  Pace was nothing special but legs were feeling a bit heavy.  This was my first run of my “off” season – I have no races planned, and the next 10k (my preferred race distance at the mo) looks like being not until next year. It was a bit strange running without the motivation of an upcoming race and the possibility of a PB – so just made sure I completed 5k, and think I will need another few recovery runs like this back to back just to get back into the swing of things, before I start attempting time trials and hill work and long runs again