Faster & Faster

Did my weekend hour long run today and it was spectacular!!! :-) Managed a 9.3k run in an hour and I'm super excited with the progress. My last hour long run had me at 8.7k

After a long time, went running along cathedral road all the way up to Marina. The weather was perfect. When I reached the beach, felt very tempted to run alongside the beach and so did exactly that. Finished my run and then took a cab back home. :|

Throughout the run I felt it was a good steady effort but at no point did I feel like I was killing myself. My average pace was 6'28" which means I would have finished 10k in about 63 minutes. :-) Ofcourse I didn't time my breaks which won't be the case at a running event. Like with every other time, I broke the 1 hr into 15 minute intervals with a short (probably 1-2 minutes) break between the intervals. Race timings would include any pitstops you make so that would put my estimate 10k finish time at 66 - 69 minutes - which is not great! My next step would be to reduce these intervals to 3 20 minute sections and run 3.1k in each 20 minute interval (to start with and build up from there).

I registered for my first event for the year with the Marina Runnerz Marathon. I ran the 10K at this event last year and it was a pretty decent event. Not too crowded and reasonably well supported for an event it's size. This year it's on Feb 26th - thats 3 weeks from today. I'm not going to specifically train for this event - just continue what I am doing and use the run to test my 10K timing.

Looking forward to this one!