After the disaster of Last week's final run I gave it a few days rest and waited until the start of week 2 before I ran again (My training weeks start on a saturday). After talking with Nick we decided to repeat week one and adjust the other weeks slightly to account for the lost days.
My first run on saturday was a test run just to see if my ankle felt ok to run on, I started slowly and my ankle felt ok so I upped the speed, I managed to get to 5K in a time of 34:27 and I felt really good. After pushing it maybe a little too hard on my test run I decided to take sunday off and get back to it in the week, but then I realised I was on nights this week which could have been a training disaster.
I normally feel really tired after a night shift, my body clock is all out of whack and all I can think of is sleeping, but on Tuesday morning I forced myself into going to the gym, Im glad I did turns out I can run pretty well after staying up all night, I managed 5.5k in 37:20, which I was very happy with. One thing I had found doing these longer runs was I was getting a rash on my inside leg from where my boxers we rubbing, on the way home after this run I stopped by The running shop and picked up some Lycra under-shorts (and some socks you can never have too many socks) to see if they improved the situation.
I went for another run on Thursday morning after work, this run was hard, I was incredibly tired and got my pace all wrong I ended up doing 5K in a PB time of 32:52 which was pleasing but I was really annoyed with myself that I didn't hold back to hit the distance I ideally needed. On the plus side the under-shorts were brilliant.
Tomorrow I go for my longest run yet 6Kto cover, I will be getting up bright and early to do this as tomorrow morning looks like it should be perfect running weather.
Tom
(I realise the title doesn't really match how the week actually turned out but it was a cool title so I ran with it).
It looks like you're having issues pacing the runs. How about if we limit it to 3 runs per week but do all three as hard workouts?
ReplyDeleteThat way you'll have enough time to recover from each workout and so won't need to hold back as much. Should still only use up 90-95% of your energy on any given run though.
What do you think?