Today’s session: Summer Series Barrenjoey Dve 5km
Time/weather: 6.15pm / windy, warm, cloudy, high 20′s
Distance: 5km event (approx 5km warm up/2km cool down – 12km)
Time taken: 26.02min
Av pace: slow warm up, slow 5km run, even slower cool down (that’s about as specific as I can get because someone forgot to turn off their Garmin last night)
I was able to leave work earlier than normal this afternoon (health & safety issues regarding no running water or air conditioning in the building since lunchtime) so I was able to get to the event location with plenty of time to do a 30minute warm up.
My legs felt heavy and I felt sluggish after last night’s session at PH. Gradually I did improve but for today’s 5km event I was not going produce an outstanding time. And come the start of the run, everyone, and I mean everyone, took off down the track leaving me in their dust. Not to worry – this was a training run after all. It was also a case of watching my footing at certain points on the run as there was the potential for so many CJs – mainly because of exposed tree roots. And then there was the windy hill which we had to do twice (I think).
The finish line popped up sooner than I had expected as I had thought I’d have to face windy hill again but it was not the case. Susan flew past me near the finish line but I had nothing more to give. Running hard two days in a row is not so something I’m used to and I was feeling it today.
“The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.” – Michael J. Fox
Yep, backing up 2 days in a row isn’t easy, but some times necessary.
No, three times up the hill into the wind. I counted them! Lovely to see you again CJ. I was super careful on the 2Fs bits as I didn’t want to do a CJ in front of you and spread blood all over the track.
Thank you Ewen – it was lovely to see you too. I do recall 3 times up windy hill now that I think about it. Was probably trying to block it out. I’m impressed that I never did a CJ, not even close!
That windy hill caused my HR to upset my HR monitor!
Good too see you out there again CJ. Don’t listen to Steve, backing up is overrated
No one listens to me anyway, take a day off.
Today is my recovery day so I went for a swim.