Posted on Feb 26, 2010 under 5-10k, 5k, Recovery Runs |
This was supposed to be a nice gentle easy run, and felt easy enough but first k ticked over in 5:06! After that settled into a slower pace, before slightly quicker last 2. Felt yesterday’s 10k in all sorts of places, but didn’t struggle too much, feel ready to do a full blast 5k at some point now and see where I’m at time wise. Not long ago, today’s time was my flat out 5k best, but was running easy today.
Posted on Feb 25, 2010 under 10k, 5-10k, Milestones |
This was the first 10k either racing or training I’ve run in months – ran it very even paced at about 5:40ish per k all the way, and just struggled a bit in the last k, as I was running out of stamina and there was a hill. Managed it though, and recovered well, it will only a matter of time before I’m knocking the minutes off and getting close to 50 mins once the races start coming up in April. 
Posted on Feb 23, 2010 under Uncategorized |
This was my first five miler in quite some time and despite it being the longest distance since my comeback, I held the fastest average pace of any of my recent runs at sub 55 10k pace. Felt really good to cover the distance at that pace, and even managed a 1k cool down jog back home – now want to start getting closer to the 40 minute mark for 5 miles, work on my speed, and add some longer runs bit by bit so I can start chipping away at my running challenges
Posted on Feb 20, 2010 under 5-10k, Tempo Runs |
This run started off as a see how I feel kind of run after yesterday’s hard going – after 2k I felt good so turned it into a tempo run and ran around 5:30 average for the next 5k, which is the hardest I’ve run for the longest so far since my comeback last month, and felt good to keep the pace up and keep pushing when it was hurting bad! Knocked 1:11 off my last 7k effort, and that was with a slightly slower last half a k to wind down as I was starting to feel it by then!
Posted on Feb 19, 2010 under 5-10k, 5k, Easy Runs, Jogs, Slow Runs |
This was a bit of a tough run. This time my lower leg held up with no twinges, but it was very cold. Felt a bit of a groin niggle. Plodded round 5k in over 31 minutes and didn’t feel all that comfortable. Just not such a good run, but felt pleased to have run without the leg playing up! But it was a bit of a struggle!
Posted on Feb 16, 2010 under Easy Runs, Injuries, Jogs |
Started off at decent pace, was going to do 5 or 6k. At 1.5k I felt my left lower leg started twingeing, so I slowed down and aborted the run at 2k – better to be safe than sorry, will see how it goes maybe need a couple of rest days or some swimming. I think my heroics lately may have caught up with me slightly 
Posted on Feb 15, 2010 under 5-10k, Milestones |
It was pouring with rain, always good weather for running, so I set off and felt a bit dodgy at first but a downhill bit got me relaxed again and into a bit of a rhythm. Felt good at 4k and pushed the pace a little, and ended up doing 7k almost 4 minutes quicker than on Saturday without feeling particularly drained by it. Did the last 3 in 5:35, 5:34 and 5:07 so am definitely getting a little bit of pace endurance back and just need to keep building on my stamina and speed.
Posted on Feb 13, 2010 under Distance, Jogs, Slow Runs |
Very slow run, but fulfilled the purpose of longest run again so far, and in general was nice to be on my feet and jogging along for over 40 mins, slowly getting my legs used to doing more work for longer, and allowing my CV system to just tick over. I recovered very quickly, and find I enjoy these slower runs, so will keep doing them, build the distance slowly, and keep doing faster bursts in between, until I feel ready for some intervals and speed work and time trials 
Posted on Feb 12, 2010 under 5-10k, 5k, Regular Runs |
Garmin went haywire so not sure exactly how far I ran or what the real pace was. First k was about to tick over in about 5:30 when my Garmin flipped back to 700 metres and ended up clocking the first k in about 6:30 – felt I was running faster than that, in fact that is my dead, dead slow pace – and all the other k’s were evenly paced around 5:30 mark, so I added an extra 300 metres to the completed distance for this run. Overall time was about a minute slower than I would expect for 5k, so seems as if I did gain the 300 metres. Thankfully it wasn’t a serious time trial, but is funny how Garmin sometimes does that.
Did struggle a bit at times on this run, with heart hammering, but was good to complete.
Posted on Feb 11, 2010 under Cross Training, Swimming |
Seeing as swimming now forms part of my training schedule, I thought I would start to include details here. This was a lunchtime session, so it was mainly pensioners in the pool, and was reasonably OK.
Going to the afternoon/evening sessions can be a nightmare with young kids floating about all over the place, dads throwing their sons half way across the pool, and games of water volleyball that keep moving around and getting in one’s way – freestyle doesn’t have the best forward visibility and it can a royal pain bumping into people.
If it happens again I will post funny anecdotes about it.
But anyway, did about 2/3 of this breastroke and the rest freestyle, the freestyle does get tough still but feels like a good workout.
