I'm gearing up for my 6th HM for the year and this one is going to be in Trivandrum on the 30th of October. I'm looking forward to running along a new route and ofcourse the added pleasure of running in my hometown.
I started my "chilled-out" training program last week. I call it chilled out because it only entails 2 or 3 runs per week. Mind you, you will never see a professional running training plan that asks for anything less than 3 days of running - so this one is just for me by me. The days that I'm not running, I've got me doing strength, cardio or Yoga. Six of the seven days in a week, I will still be active. Of the two runs, one will be a short, fast one (tempo, fartlek or interval - depending on what I feel like) and one will be a long, slow one.
This week, on Tuesday, I joined the Nitros for a short run. The plan was to do a 6k tempo. The rest of the group were doing an easy run - I just had to keep up with the "easy" pace of the faster runners to maintain my tempo pace. Managed to do the 6k in 41 minutes which is about 4 minutes faster than my average 6k time.
I had my long run scheduled for yesterday. I was intending to do a moderate paced 12k but I knew that was a tough ask last morning given that I had had a long, tiring work day the previous day and had only about 4.5hrs of sleep in the bank. I decided to endure the whole distance by working an easy - slow pace.
It had rained the previous night and I was expecting it to be very pleasant to run in the morning. I was so wrong. It was sultry, humid and almost breeze-less. I thought that once I got to the 6k point by Marina, instead of turning around, I would run along the beach promenade and back - just for some relief from the heat. But even along the beach it was still and opressive so I ended up turning around after all.
In the end, I did manage the whole distance and because I was going at a slow pace, it didn't feel totally torturous.
Another 4 weeks to go.
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