10-02-2013, 07:09 PM
Lovely - thanks Ed, will set to it on Tuesday and do an hour easy tomorrow to lead into it 
Did 5K over the same hilly course as last week today, plus the gale force winds, plus the rain/sleet. I went out with the intention of running the first 3K quite easy (this is the downhill part); and then really attacking the hills for the last 2K. Below is the comparison to last weeks 5K. As you can probably imagine, I'm disappointed it was 5 seconds slower, but delighted that I could attack such big hills so easily after 3K... As stupid as it sounds, this is making me exactly what you said about my half marathons from last year - if I set off too quickly, I'll have nothing left... The fact from one week to the next I manage to run the same 1K 26 seconds faster, simply because I'm leaving something in the tank, rather than going for everything straight away!
1 KM (33M downhill)
Week 1 - 4:06 183bpm
Week 2 - 4:16 182bpm (+10 seconds)
2 KM (55M downhill)
Week 1 - 3:39 188bpm
Week 2 - 4:04 186bpm (+35 seconds)
3 KM (24M downhill)
Week 1 - 4:08 188bpm
Week 2 - 4:13 187bpm (+40 seconds)
4 KM (27M uphill)
Week 1 - 5:11 194bpm
Week 2 - 4:45 198bpm (+14 seconds)
5 KM (37M uphill)
Week 1 - 5:08 195bpm
Week 2 - 4:59 204bpm (+5 seconds)
Also managed to peak at 204bpm; which is 3bpm higher than I thought I could go... Interesting!
Did 5K over the same hilly course as last week today, plus the gale force winds, plus the rain/sleet. I went out with the intention of running the first 3K quite easy (this is the downhill part); and then really attacking the hills for the last 2K. Below is the comparison to last weeks 5K. As you can probably imagine, I'm disappointed it was 5 seconds slower, but delighted that I could attack such big hills so easily after 3K... As stupid as it sounds, this is making me exactly what you said about my half marathons from last year - if I set off too quickly, I'll have nothing left... The fact from one week to the next I manage to run the same 1K 26 seconds faster, simply because I'm leaving something in the tank, rather than going for everything straight away!
1 KM (33M downhill)
Week 1 - 4:06 183bpm
Week 2 - 4:16 182bpm (+10 seconds)
2 KM (55M downhill)
Week 1 - 3:39 188bpm
Week 2 - 4:04 186bpm (+35 seconds)
3 KM (24M downhill)
Week 1 - 4:08 188bpm
Week 2 - 4:13 187bpm (+40 seconds)
4 KM (27M uphill)
Week 1 - 5:11 194bpm
Week 2 - 4:45 198bpm (+14 seconds)
5 KM (37M uphill)
Week 1 - 5:08 195bpm
Week 2 - 4:59 204bpm (+5 seconds)
Also managed to peak at 204bpm; which is 3bpm higher than I thought I could go... Interesting!