Tuesday, 1 July 2008

Kylie wasn't feeling very well today, so took Carer's Leave given the children were at home today also. not one of their child care days

Cooked dinner for the children, did the dishes, some washing, fed the children lunch, and put them down to sleep. Took out the rubbish, had the older ones clean up their room and after doing all that today i was ready to hit the training track

Ran from home, which took about twelve minutes. A testing session this one. Brian had us do a pyramid set. It would consist of a steady 600, 800, 1000, 1200, then back down as 1000, 800, 600 with the recovery between all of those an across infield recovery

As expected, felt strong through the first effort, but that second effort, the 800, felt quite solid. The 1000 metre effort felt pretty hard and I was wondering how I was possibly going to finish off this long session.

So, with the 1200 I decided to try to run comfortable at a steady pace. So I was pretty surprised to look at my watch and see that at least after two laps of the 1200 I was on my 5 km pb pace, ie 80 second laps

Not sure whaqtr my times were for the downward part of the pyramid but foe the last effort, 600 metres, I did 1:55. Very pleased with that given the first 600 effort was 2:00

Off home for the chicken pasta I had cooked two hours before

TOTAL DISTANCE : about eight kilometres including warm up