The regrouping continues. I’ve maintained the strength work over the last 3 weeks. It feels like I continually have heavy legs. That’s to be expected, I tell myself. But it’s hard to mentally accept that you feel a butt off. I need to trust the process. Today I did a training race at the Stone 10k race, with a bike out and back to add training value.
My plan was to run the first 5k in 20 min and then aim for a sub-19 min second 5k. It was seriously hit today and maybe that asses to the performance and ability to hold the desired pace. I went through 5k in 19:38. So a bit too fast. This pace felt ok though. As I upped the pace for the second 5k it wasn’t long before I started to feel more fatigued. The 6th Kilometre was 3:46 which was bang in what I wanted. But it would be difficult to maintain this pace. I could have upped the effort a bit more over the last 2k but I didn’t want to fully empty the tank.
So the second 5k was 19:08 for an overall finish of 38:47. Happy enough with that at this stage but I’d like to return to 37 min shape by end of August.
The plan is to race the Manchester Airport Duathlon in August, the Darley Moor Duathlon in September: then peak for the Oulton Park Duathlon 1 October. Maybe look for a decent 5k race mixed in too. As for the bike, nit sure I’ll get any TT events in there but could probably get in decent form using Zwift races.
Let’s see how it turns out✊🏃♂️🚴🏃♂️
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