01-07-2021, 12:09 PM
Hi,
Just a quick check-in.
Completed the 4k time trial in around 16.30. Started out deliberately slower around 4.10 pace and increased after the first 2k, hitting around 4k pace for the final 2. Very pleased overall and it all falls in line with the expected pace I can run at the moment. Just a note that I ran this later on in the evening (around 7.30) than I have been running recently (I used to run evenings all the time however), and after a busy day out, I wanted to do the session but my body did not, the warmup was painfully slow and I thought how am I ever going to do this but surprisingly as soon as I got my "game head" on it all just happened - This I can only put down to the program and being able to produce the results when it matters - I am increasingly running slower on easy days but can just "switch" it on for the hard sessions which again is very pleasing.
Ok so this is longer than a quick check-in but.... completed the 2k session this morning (3 laps as recommended for the 5k version of the program) and it was all very controlled, pretty much 4.05 pace the whole way, had to dig in a bit at the end but that's the session!.
I have to self-isolate over the weekend (for the next 4 days) for reasons we wont go into, so no running and then it will all get a bit messy with my 10k race being on the 3rd Wednesday of the program so I will probably aim to do the 1k session next week some time after a couple of easy days back into it after the 4 days off and then just easy runs until the race, followed by easy days after until a new cycle starts when I will probably try out a different 2k session - I'm fancying the 1500 based one at the moment.
Cheers!
Rob
Just a quick check-in.
Completed the 4k time trial in around 16.30. Started out deliberately slower around 4.10 pace and increased after the first 2k, hitting around 4k pace for the final 2. Very pleased overall and it all falls in line with the expected pace I can run at the moment. Just a note that I ran this later on in the evening (around 7.30) than I have been running recently (I used to run evenings all the time however), and after a busy day out, I wanted to do the session but my body did not, the warmup was painfully slow and I thought how am I ever going to do this but surprisingly as soon as I got my "game head" on it all just happened - This I can only put down to the program and being able to produce the results when it matters - I am increasingly running slower on easy days but can just "switch" it on for the hard sessions which again is very pleasing.
Ok so this is longer than a quick check-in but.... completed the 2k session this morning (3 laps as recommended for the 5k version of the program) and it was all very controlled, pretty much 4.05 pace the whole way, had to dig in a bit at the end but that's the session!.
I have to self-isolate over the weekend (for the next 4 days) for reasons we wont go into, so no running and then it will all get a bit messy with my 10k race being on the 3rd Wednesday of the program so I will probably aim to do the 1k session next week some time after a couple of easy days back into it after the 4 days off and then just easy runs until the race, followed by easy days after until a new cycle starts when I will probably try out a different 2k session - I'm fancying the 1500 based one at the moment.
Cheers!
Rob