The week in training (4)

July 17th - 23rd

Monday. As always, the week starts off with an S&C workout. It's always hard work.

Tuesday. Track workout. Two days in a row I’ve been worked hard.

Run around in circles Tuesday.

Wednesday. A very welcome rest day.

Thursday Tempo workout,

It’s very clear from the trace where the warm up and cool down is

Friday Rest day.

Saturday. Flat out 5K time trial. OK, it’s Parkrun. That’s the beauty of this Best Athletics training plan. I get to do a fast parkrun every other week. However, I really need to be a better judge of my pace on 5K’s like these. I think I could record a faster time if I set off slower and ran quicker at the end. My usual plan is to go off fast and hold on for as long as I can. Such a change in strategy would take discipline. Perhaps I need to pace myself against a regular who is behind me for the longest time and blasts pasts me in the last mile to finish as much as 20 seconds in front of me. Still, I posted my second fastest time for the course running in my Hoka’s.

Sunday It was going to be an 11 mile long run. But my wife’s flight on Saturday was delayed, and we didn’t get back from the airport until 2am. I just didn’t fancy running any distance at all on 4 hours sleep and with temperatures predicted to be in the 80’s Fahrenheit, running later in the day was not an option. So I swapped workouts, and did tomorrow’s S&C workout was done instead. I’ll go out early on Monday for the 11 miler. I’ll make it a little easier than usual, being how I have a tough track workout on Tuesday band Hill sprints on Thursday.