That's about the point where I lost them. Well I gave it a shot on Saturday and was pretty disappointed with the result. I had trained hard, I'd missed a few of the longer runs on the plan but never missed a speed session weight went up and down but on the morning I was heading in 4 Kilograms lighter than the earlier attempt. Dom Horan had offered to pace so we did a good warm up and I'd say I was feeling confident enough. Shanganagh is a 1k lap then two laps of 2k. I figured if I just targeted to make sure I was still with Dom at 3k then I'd be able to...
Another decent week of training behind me. The speed session this week was 6 1k intervals but I was doing them off 4:40 pace with 90 seconds recovery. Surprised at how easy 4:40 felt which is good sign I suppose considering the last time I gave this 5k a shot that was only 10 seconds slower than race pace. I did feel a bit dodgy on Thursday just felt wiped out and felt I was coming down with something. I had a bike session planned on the Friday.........couldn't do it. Decided to take Saturday off as a recovery day, then tried to do my long run on a treadmill but wasn't feeling it at all. Went back to the bike...
At the start of the week one week one of the tasks was to run a sub 4 minute k. If you can’t run one k under the target time you may as well forget it. I was delighted to check my watch at what I thought was the 1k mark turned out it was on 92%
So good news this week. No sessions missed but I did blow up again this week, although this time it was on the long run. The long run this week has gone up to two hours. I decided to do it early morning and I'd run Home to Bray via Cliff walk and back on the coast road. I had a decent breakfast of Granola didn't drink anything (mistake 1) didn't bring any money either which I normally always do. Got to Bray feeling great took this photo thinking I was the bomb and just had to run back to Greystones. So I went up putland hill and very quickly the throat was becoming dry. Started really feeling...
