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.