Last week I bagged. Gym session on Tuesday - really trying to tick over with the conditioning and not stop altogether. I was away with work on Wednesday but bagged an early steady run on Thursday before travelling home. On Friday I completed a Zwift race to help the bike form hopefully. Saturday was a day off to so domestics jobs that I’ve been neglecting.
On to today and I’d planned a key session. The focus was on the bike but with a Duathlon slant. That means I needed a pre-exhaust before a hard bike. So I did a decent run warm up then 6 x 800m in the park over a course is used before last year. I remember feeling crappy in those sessions, struggling to maintain 3:50 per k pace. Today was very different and confirmed that my running is in a good place. First rep at 3:33 per k pace, which was the slowest rep. Three reps were under 3:30; fastest 3:27. Pleased with this run session but my head want more. I felt like I’d reached terminal velocity. So my logic says I need to do more short fast sessions to try and get the muscle pathways used to faster paces. I want a sub-18 min 5k but that means running at 3:35 pace. Don’t think I can sustain that pace for 5k 😳. But all good I suppose.
After the 800m reps I jumped straight onto a Zwift race again - same course as Friday. It worked really well as the smaller group meant a tactical race. Of course it went ballistic on any sniff of incline. My mega were soon toast but a great session.
Next race is 10 May at the evening event on a Wednesday evening. I did this race last year and was pleased with a 39:24 finish on this lumpy route. I feel so much in a better place with my running now and would be disappointed not to run sun 39 min. But no pressure - it’s a training race!
More to come soon as the Darley Moor Duathlon approaches on 28 May 23.
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