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. :-)
Debbie and I are away to see a talk on the Everest Marathon by Angela Budge tonight and so we decided to do our normal Tuesday session at lunchtime. It was back to our normal Kelvingrove 600m session which we haven't done since at least December. I was still feeling a bit rubbish after the half on Sunday so I really wanted to take it easy. Debbie warned me not to go off at my normal pace but to be honest it was me trying to hang on to her pace as we warmed up. During the warm up I spied Lindsay Cunningham and Scott Kennedy doing a speed session and for a moment my competitive side gave me a bit of energy and I thought about joining them. But that faded pretty quick as all I could muster was a "Hello".
Onto the session and I decided to change it to 400m with a 200m downhill recovery. I just did the six of them and then hung onto Debbie for the run back to work. Felt better for doing them but knew that it wasn't a 100% effort.
The Angela Mudge talk was excellent and I think that she may have done some of the hard work in trying to talk Debbie around to doing it some time. I felt very cold and shivery during the talk and so I must be run-down. I was glad to get into the warm car, home and to my bed.
(including warm up/down)Back to the granite stairs at Kelvingrove Park for tonight's session. Looks like we are going to do this session once every 2 weeks with the mile reps on the alternate ones. I spent all day trying to get out of it and even going as far as saying to Debbie that we could go out tomorrow morning. I felt a bit rough from last nights activities and felt like I had raced a half-marathon the day before rather than a 3 1/4 mi. Santa race.
Luckily this isn't a bad session to do on a Monday night and the idea is that we are trying to get some more speed into our legs.
Felt great after this session of 12. A little slower than normal but Averaging on 34 seconds up and down. Thought that I would include a picture this time as I have never seen it in daylight before.
