Saturday means Lyme Park – or at least that’s my plan now. I want to try to do this hilly run each Saturday before Sunday’s long run.
My newly clipped running partner clearly felt much better for shedding so much extra weight and left me standing at every turn, climb, descent – in fact just about everywhere. I’d calculate that she covers twice the distance that I do and every run’s a fartlek for her. Impressive.
Very exhilarating run today. I felt completely energised when we got back to the car. The weather was fantastic, the scenery as beautiful as ever and the pace, perfect.
6m | 1:00:47 | 10:19 | 165bpm | Hilly Run
Wow! Today’s run was wonderful. Somehow weird how frequently this happens, but I barely slept last night – was still awake as the sun came up, I guess around 4:30 – 4:45. Spent the morning gardening, which given the length of our grass and the height and bushiness of the hedges, was quite tiring. We then headed over to my mother’s to walk the dogs and got home around 4:30pm.
Headed out for my usual 11 miler and felt very comfortable. I’m aware that I’m still running too fast (given the heart rate zone), but it was comfortable at this pace. I rectified the mistake I’d made on Thursday and took a 33cl bottle of water with me, just to wet the mouth more than anything. I think it made a difference. I didn’t fade towards the end and, though I could have run another couple of miles, in truth this was well measured and felt spot on for a training run.
A quick bath and I’m ready for another. Roll on tomorrow. Hope I feel this great!!
11m | 1:39:18 | 9:07 | 161bpm | Marathon Pace | 82.6kg
