Yesterday I had a physically intense afternoon doing a team building exercise for work. It was great fun and had us running around the city all afternoon. Unfortunately it had me running late … Then I was distracted and got off the tram at the wrong stop making me even later for training (and by that stage, quite fatigued)
I knew we had the 5k time trial and that I wanted to do well – It wasn’t the time that concerned me (except as a baseline for future performance) but getting the process right – acknowledging the fatigue I felt and using that information to guide my pacing and effort.
Well I wasn’t able to get it all right – I don’t think I achieved a negative split for instance, but I was pretty close and am stoked with the run. Everything hurt but I was able to find a pace that I was able to maintain, with some struggle, what I thought was probably the right amount of struggle for a 5k time trial. It was another great mental exercise, running at a challenging pace with no ipod to aid disassociating.
Afterward I was pretty spent, in great need of a long stretch and a big sleep. I stayed at Albert Park for another 20 minutes stretching and doing yoga in the cold. I felt like a kill joy while the rest of the group went to the pub – which I would have really enjoyed, It’s going to be great to get to know these guys better as we go, but my mind and body were crying out for the stretching and the downtime.
My time was 34:27.
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