Saturday was a pretty good training day.
Usual start to the day - alarm goes off and I think "WHY, Lee?? WHY???? How do you get yourself into these messes".
By the time I make it to training I'm more positive, but only gingerly.
I felt confused as to where we were supposed to be running not knowing the area so well, but dismissed it. As long as I ran for 35 minutes, turned around, and made that negative split I'd be happy.
And that's what happened. I got lost, but I made my negative split and I was happy! and I know the area a little better now, so hopefully an improvement to the map following next time..
I stayed and stretched for 20 minutes, and pulled up ok on Sunday. It was a much more comfortable, controlled run than Wendesday night (thank goodness!) and I experimented with counting in my head in conjunction with my breath to pass the time and manage my pace. I liked it, more to come!
On the other hand.. things I've still to work out is actually getting the sunday, monday and thursday training I have planned achieved (watch this space..), getting enough core strengthening in during my training week, and eating right. This week I plan to focus on the eating, so we'll see how that's going after thursday night!
This coming Saturday's workout is a shorter run - 8k - and the following weekend I have the half marathon, so this two weeks between now and then seems the perfect time to get good habits launched and consolidated. Watch this space!
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