It has been over a week since my last post and thanks to a busy a schedule I hadn't even realized it. Though busy, I did manage to get in my runs for the week.
On Monday, I turned 33 and to celebrate, I did a quick short run of 3.3k. Last year I had thought to myself that I would run 33k on my 33rd birthday. But having just done a half marathon the week before, I thought it would be quite foolish to attempt this. So I settled for 10%... :-). That was quite a happy, evenly paced run and it took me about 20 odd minutes.
On Tuesday, I had my 3rd speed training - and my 2nd visit to SDAT. This time round the workout was 2 repeats of 3 sets of 400 meter sprints with 2 minutes rest between sets and 4 minutes rest between repeats. It was a really, really brutal workout and felt all the more awesome at the end of it because of the brutality. The goal was 2:00 per set and I managed to average around 2:05.
Thursday was my first tempo run with the group. It was supposed to be a 3x3k my goal was 18-19 minutes per 3k. (Thats a pace of 6'00" to a km) I started out with a bunch of the faster runners and was feeling super proud of myself when I found myself keeping pace with them. At some point I glanced down at my app and saw that the pace was 5'25". You guessed it! I couldn't sustain that for long and by 2.5k or so I was burned out. Capital B. Capital O. Just had to turn around. Walked it off for a kilometer and then did a slow jog back to the park. It probably also didn't help that I hadn't eaten or slept enough pre-run.
Been also getting in a bit of strength training in between runs and so in general its been a good week fitness-wise.
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I have the Marina Runnerz 10k coming up on Sunday. Hopefully the speed training & tempo runs will help me clock a decent time. Hoping for a PB (but of course!)
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