A nice hilly tempo run of 5km completed last night, just to keep things in trim. I am puzzled however as to why it seems so relatively easy to run a fast race, yet when I try to match that same pace in training, it's damn hard work. There's some kind of weird race psychology happening here that I just don't understand. None of the running books or magazines seem to be much use on the subject either. What I find particularly odd is that my body seems to understand these things innately well, and conspires with my psyche to perform in a race, yet when I call on it at training, it feigns ignorance of any such thing and puts up all manner of resistance like a lazy teenager. :mad:
Still, not much point musing over such things. Like teenagers, they shall remain perpetually perplexing. Thank God I was never a teenager.
Anyway, must dash - I have important re-hydration matters to attend to.
Manly May
