A bit more 10K prep to report.
Now back at work, I tackled the hill reps in the evening for the first time. It was a step-back week*, so the rep count was reduced to 5. Main conclusion was that I prefer running in the evenings to the mornings. It's probably both psychological and physical. Anyway, I felt strong, and I reckon that if I'd had a watch with me I might have cracked that 2 mins barrier...
Tempo run was also conducted in darkness. A middle mile comfortably under 7 mins, sandwiched between buildup and cooldown. For the next two weeks I'll see if I can complete two miles at the same pace.
I limited the long run to 5 miles -- why do more for a 10K? With an unusually free Saturday afternoon available, I eschewed the Album du Jour in favour of the sound of twittering birdies, and took to the lanes. A bit too warm to be truly pleasant, and if race day is anything like that then PB aspirations will go straight out of the window.
Meanwhile, a couple of news items recently spotted:
Bristol Half Marathon runners 'not timed' (no, that isn't me in the photo).
Running London (A Marathon Endeavour): -- some bloke writes about his marathon training in painstaking detail; what could be more tedious?**
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* Text first appeared in a marvellously Freudian slip as "set-back week".
** Having now read all of this blog to date, I see that it contains much of interest to the RC reader -- not only detailed descriptions of the local geography, but a calf injury as well.
The rest of 2010 - between marathons
