"Sore today, Strong tomorrow" I came across this inspirational phrase somewhere on the vast worldwide web and it has stuck in my head. Its what I repeat to myself when I'm feeling all achy from the previous day's work out and need to find the drive to get through whatever new I have scheduled for myself for that day. It came in handy today.
I was coming off two pretty taxing strength routines from Monday and Tuesday and was rather sore all over. I was this close to getting back in bed after switching off the 4:00 am alarm. Anyways, mustered up my energy levels and hit the roads for a pretty terrific tempo run.
I always seem to be surprising myself during these tempo sessions. The last time around, my tempo pace target was 6'35" and I ended up doing 6'27" instead. Was pretty excited at the improvement in my pace. This week I had accordingly set myself a pace target of 6'25" for the same distance. So for 2km, thats a target finish time of 12:50.
I started off the first set at a zippy pace. It felt like a moderate effort so I decided to keep at it. To my surprise, I finished the set in 12:20 - 30 seconds faster than goal and at a pace of 6'10". I was pretty sure that I wouldn't be able to sustain that same pace in the following two sets and again I surprised myself by doing set 2 in 12:23 (6'11") and set 3 in 12:37 (6'16"). Woo Hoo!
Looks like consistency in training really works!
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