Tuesday, Week 10

1M jog, then 4 x 1.5M fast, with 400m jog recoveries, then 1M jog

Mapped out a complicated list of points to stop and start my mile and a half repeats round the mile circuit near my home.

First repeat was good - roughly 6:20 min/mile pace.

Second felt terrible and took 50 seconds longer. Blamed it on mismeasuring the distance.

Third felt even worse. Struggling with breathing, legs not working on the long uphill. Took over a minute longer than the first repeat. Blamed it on mismeasuring the distance again.

Last was slightly better, but still hard work.

However, on getting back home and remeasuring, I found I wasn't doing a lot further than the mile and a half each time, and have to put this down to either an accumlation of tiredness in my legs or an approaching cold.

Think I was hoping for soemthing spectacular after the last two times I've done these repeats (in week 2, and also the same workout in week 10 last year which was amazingly good).

Back to a long run home from work tonight, and will just write this one off.


Monday, Week 10

4 Miles, Easy

Went very slow, but still didn't feel easy. Felt like I did at 18 miles yesterday.