Speed Demon

Training Plan - 13Km including warm/cool and 9.5 km at 5:10 Actual - 13 Km, well see below for the rest Weekly Total - 39 Km Well, yesterday's session was pretty much what today's was supposed to be. So today I was feeling like I didn't really want to have such a structured session. I did 13Km pretty much exactly in 66 minutes with an over all average pace of 5:04. Rather than running around the tan a few times instead I headed up along the yarra to Morrel Bridge and then turned towards Richmond and headed back towards the tan on the footpath. I decided to take this as a Fartlek session so a nice straight footpath was perfect for some faster stuff. I did some 400 metre bursts of about 4:15/4:20 pace, then backed off to 4:40/4:50 and held that for almost the whole 13Km. Once I got back onto the tan I kept the tempo pace and also sprinted Anderson Street, albeit in 2 sections with a quick standing recovery, talk about burning legs! I jumped off the tan track in some parts and wound up around some of the inner paths, when back on the tan I used the light poles as guides and did some more sprinting, didn't pay much attention to distance just ran as hard as I could for as long as I could then backed off again for a floating recovery. So some pretty free form speed work tonight but quite enjoyable all the same. I was feeling sorry for myself at the start, having some negative body image issues, just stupid stuff like "oh why wasn't I born all petite and delicate, why do I have such a clumsy awkward body?" blah blah blah, I am strong and healthy stop whining!! But once I got going I blew the nasty negative thoughts away. I plugged my recent 10Km race time into Mr McMillans Calculator today, then generous soul has given me a predicted half marathon time of 1:47:11, what a sweetie!! I have kept saying I am aiming for a 2 hour finish, but I may as well 'fess up to my real goal, I am aiming for 1:50:00 but wouldn't be devastated with 1:55:00 - well, 24 days to go and the goal is out there now!