A little repetition

First of all thanks to everyone that has welcomed me back to blogging world.  Didn’t think that my mutterings would be missed.

Today we decided to forget running on the road and a repeat of yesterdays useless session.  So we all dusted off our spikes and headed to Kelvingrove park for some cross country reps.  Yeah you heard right, during our lunch break.

The route that we ran was 450m.  The first 200m on a gradual downhill then onto a short sharp hill with the last 200m odd on a gradual slope to the finish.  Sounds easy.  Well times it by 10 and only take a 1minute 10 secs recovery.

After kicking up the mileage this week my legs weren’t feeling like this but they needed some speed injected into them.  The first 4 were easy enough but I took the 5th a little easier as I was struggling with the recoveries.  6,7 and 8 were all fine and the 9th felt very comfortable and fast.  I really struggled on the 10th with my legs turning into jelly.  Also on the 10th the police arrived.  Possibly to move us if we did any more as I am sure the 5 of us were starting to cut up the park with our spikes or maybe they just wanted to eye up college birds while they sipped coffee and ate doughnuts.  :-)

The run back to work was awful.  My legs buckling as I ran up the hill at St Vincent Street.  Tough session but well worth it.

Slippery Slope

Out for another lunchtime run.  Today was meant to be a fartlek session but we had to change it to just a run due to the conditions.  Very slippery.  Actually I am surprised none of us didn’t end up in the river or injured.  We kept plenty of people entertained on the route with the gypos that are normally resident on the Kelvin walkway laughing at our attempts to run on the ice.  Most of the time it felt like we were running at under 6 min pace due to the slipping and Bens heart rate monitor was showing the same effort even although the watches were saying barely under 8 min mile.  Did think about going to club reps at night as well but felt a bit tired and thought I would keep something for reps tomorrow.

8.74m in 1:08:14 @ 7:48/m

A strange route with us trying to miss the most icy patches

Recovery Run

A nice easy recovery run with Ben at lunchtime.  Felt even easier when we saw the usual crowd running reps around Kelvingrove.

8.52miles in 1:00:52 @ 7:08 /mi

Legs a bit stiff but nothing too bad.  My back is a bit sore from yesterday and I have felt very hungry all day.

It is now exactly 200 days until the race.  Not that long. :-)