Saturday, June 14, 2008

Ugh

Today's run was a struggle right from the get go. I was rudely awoken by a European football fan getting up to watch his team kick some serious butt, and fell back into a surprisingly deep sleep. When I woke up I felt off. Weak and just a bit funny. I figured food would help, and it did a bit. Mucked around until P got back from the pub (about 9am) and then dragged my(pleasantly slim seeming) self out the door.

I ran the Hutt river trail from the Esplanade Trail. I fartlekked a bit, and it's pretty easy to tell from my splits where the road became trail, and where the smooth trail became muddy and rough. My fartleks were around 7:40 pace on the nice bits, and ranged from 8:06 to 8:39 on the rough bits. Overall, I ended up covering 6.77 miles in 1:01, for 9:07 pace. Not terrible (not great, compared to my long run at 9:19 and my hilly run at 9:21....), but it wasn't much fun, and I hope I'm feeling speedier next week.

The pool was a little better. I've decided to set myself a goal of finally getting 100 in under 1:40. Today I got a bit closer, with 2/2 100s at 1:41.

Anyway, not much to say. Will watch the ABs kicking some pommie arse ;-) (Hi Mike!)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I find trail running tough! Sometimes it feels faster to just walk the damn thing! I will persevere tho - I'm sure it will get easier

Good work on the the swimming - that's a great time for 100!

Aaron said...

Good work!

Do you find much difference in your training run times to race time?

Nice work in the pool as well.

Rachel H. said...

I am not very good at Trail Running, but I like it. It's definitely a change of pace and scenery!

Steve Stenzel said...

Getting faster!!.....