I think I (accidentally) picked a very good time to have an "easy" week - we are now in the middle of a mini-heatwave, with temperatures peaking at around 31 degrees today (and still around that even now it's evening!). This morning I went for my little mile-and-a-bit run around the local housing estate (slightly better than it sounds) and was extremely glad not to be going any further. Most of the rest of the day was spent at a local country park with Pickle, who had a whale of a time in their splash pad and sandpit, including making friends with lots of little people! In fact there was one little boy (around 18 months) who took a real shine to him and followed him around for about 2 hours, taking his hand and leading him where he "needed" to go. The little boy's mum was so impressed with Pickle's kindness and patience that she treated him to an ice-cream. Yesterday I did my yoga in the garden and I'm now off to do the same again.
Namaste.
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I had my first attempt at purposely running slowly today. One thing it certainly did was to show me how far my running has developed in the past few months.
I managed to keep an average pace of 10:22 per mile (I was aiming for 10:30), which I know was a fast pace for me back in February (I happen to remember a training run where I pushed and kept a pace of 10:30). Also my heart rate was massively lower than it usually is when I run (average 136 bpm compared to 152bpm during my interval session yesterday for example) and I got home feeling like I hadn't exercised at all (I did only run 1.3 miles as it's a short run day, but I wasn't really out of breath). So this has made me feel more confident about keeping a more gentle pace in some of my long runs. From everything I've read recently I do need to work on this aspect of my running as well as my speed work. Tomorrow is ParkRun, then on Sunday I have a 7.8 mile long run planned, so watch this space! |
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