5k Time Trial – Haughton Route – 27:57 FAIL!
Posted on Feb 06, 2009 under 5-10k, 5k, Time Trials | No Comment
Well kind of – was expecting to run a nice fast 5k based on how good I’d been catching up lately, but by the end of this I puttered over the 5k mark (albeit strangely to my naked eye an extra street than last time, exactly the same route and I set off at an earlier marker to boot – but Garmin computer said no!). Only managed 27:57 – which is probably as a result of upping the running lately, only having one day’s rest since my longest run to date so I felt it in the legs, and also setting off at a harebrained suicidal pace which I was never going to be able to keep up. Will compare it to the last splits and see where I went wrong!
Today’s 1k splits:
1. 5:06
2. 5:33
3. 6:13
4. 5:33
5. 5:31
Obviously I was feeling it bad in that middle K, although didn’t notice slowing so dramatically… Otherwise the pace was fairly even apart from the crazily fast (at my current level) first, and the strangely slow 3rd!! 😛
Not a total failure though – experience has taught me that a “bad” run like this is actually good – because I pushed hard and even though I was struggling, sometimes a hard run that turns out slow, does as much good as an easy run that ends up effortlessly fast. So I am going to indulge in a few beers and take three days off, then do another time trial and see how the rest does me!