It begins... (again)

[Charliecat5]

...this means that we run 400 metres at a 5k pace, and then speed up to a sprint pace for the last 100 metres. 

Whoa there; 5k pace is sprint pace.

Isn't it?

It is for me.

I realised quite early on that the 5k pace, is not actually a pace I could run 5k in.  I can however, run a couple of times round the track at that pace.   Interestingly (and when I say 'interestingly' I mean horrifyingly) they made us run a track mile a few weeks back.  I came in at 6:47.  Which I didn't think was that bad considering the state of my glutes at the moment.  Having said that, my glutes might not be in the state they are, if I didn't do stupid things like running a 6:47 min/mile.