A 10 miler today with 5 miles at marathon pace in the middle. Still quite windy and foolishly I started the 5 quicker miles running into the wind. I never felt comfortable and was having to push hard just to get inside my target time of 5:40's. The penultimate mile contained a good 600m climb (still into the wind), then the last mile I was assisted by a nice downhill stretch. Here are the mile times:
5:32/5:37/5:37/5:50/5:26 (total 28:02)
There are reasons why it doesn't feel comfortable running at MP at the moment. I recall feeling the same in the build up to Dublin. Magically on the day it will all click into place - at least that's what I keep telling myself.
All up 16.0kms in 1:02:40 (ave 3:55's).
In the evening I had a good massage which lasted well over an hour. Each massage seems to be less painful than the last - a good sign (caveat - except my calves which were screaming). Rest tomorrow.
3 comments:
I agree Matt, after drinking it give a higher heartbeat, now the body is working harder, which means better training results. I think your drinking habits should be used for the purposes of sports science & alcohol research...May be you could get sponsored by a drinks company? Well done on your last 2 races…You compete in all the different races flat & hard. Well done again…
you get messages quite regularly, do you find these imorove your training much or is it for injury prevention?
Ted - I mainly use the massage as injury prevention. That said, it's good practice to have a rub just before a big race. That way you iron out and problems in the muscles and leave yourself in optimum shape for the race.
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