Time Reps

Did some intervals timed by myself tonight. 9 mins hard, 8 mins hard, 3 mins hard, 2 mins hard, 1 min hard, with 2 mins recovery between the 9 and 8 and 1 minute recovery between the shorter reps. Pretty tough session and I was training by myself, but felt good as I hadn't done anything difficult in a while. Started off well hitting 3:23 and 3:12 for the first 2km in the 9 minutes and continued at around the same pace to finish it off. Felt it a lot more in the 8 coming in at 3:19 then 3:30 and held around there for the remainder also. Pushed harder on the 3 minutes and clocked almost a k then again on the 2 and 1 minutes, getting around in about  2:50 - 2:45 pace. Feeling good now though but apparently we are tapering tomorrow, but definitely keen for another big session.



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Depressed

Running club got cancelled tonight and rescheduled for tomorrow because of the rain, can't make that session because of other stuff so pretty frustrated as I want to do some good training. Did an easy 10.7km today instead in 58:50 so a fair bit slower than usual but I was really hungry. So pumped for Thursdays session, hope it's a good one.

Mixing it up

Yesterday had a soccer game but didn't run, but I did a long run today instead of rest day. Time was 1:08:50 for 14.2km. Felt great the whole time, was really easy and stoked to run like that considering the weekend training was pretty poor. Last 2 weeks until my school cross country race so want to put in some quality training so I feel good about the race.

Rough Session

Today was meant to race in a 2km cross country race, but we got there too late so we couldn't. Nick and I did a bit of training instead, 4 x 1km reps in the pouring rain, on a muddy cross country track. Difficult to see and struggled to get in oxygen. Hilly and bumpy as well which made life hard. Times were 3:25, 3:13, 3:20, 3:25. Very average but the rain slowed us down a lot. Got used to the surface though which was great, have a soccer much tomorrow so more grass running and will go for an easy run after the game. Will try and sneak a gps watch out onto the field with me tomorrow so I can see how far I run. 5km all up today.

Update

Struggling to get the blog updated as we are back at school now, loads of work and there isn't much time anymore. Yesterday did a 3km out and back with Chris with the easy run hitting 14:37 and the hard 9:50. Pretty happy with the quicker time because I felt like I still had a fair bit left in me. Then had soccer game straight after. We won but I didn't play well, tired throughout the second half because of the run. 8.2km all up with a warm up and cool down. Today up at running club we were meant to do 4.8km, 3.6km, 2.4km, 1.2km but only ended up doing the 4.8 and 3.6 but went out with the intention of doing it all. Started off well and cruisy going through the first 1200m in 4:26, then faster with a 4:17 for the next lap, then 4:16 then finally a huge negative split of 4:04 for the last 1200m finishing in 17:03 so happy with that considering last time for this session I went out in 17:59. Next was the 3.6km and it was well dark by this time. Again started off slowly and sped up, splits for each 1200m were 4:25, 4:19 and 4:07 again coming home strong for a final time of 12:51. Probably started off a bit slowly but happy with this time. We then stopped because everyone felt shitty and Cheyne was stoked with the training so far and didn't want to ruin it. 10.8km all up 8.4 of which was hard work. Next time want to complete the session.

Another Big Session

Rest day yesterday and first time running in the dark tonight. Just Haffie and I out tonight, Nick has shin splints, Chris was at school training, Jasper was at footy and Ciara and Ryan both were at soccer. We did Kenyan Fartlek, 8 x 2 minutes and 6 x 1 minutes. The 2's ended up being harder than the 1's overall, we started off slow and really kicked home on the last 4 and on the 1's the same thing happened really getting around the track. 12km all up, solid work.

Easter Sunday Long Run

Easter today so got up early to go for a long one. 16km in 1:22:41. Felt tough at the start I think because I wasn't warmed up, but slowly got into it and by the end I was feeling better than the last time I did this distance. Will have a rest day tomorrow and will try not to inhale to much chocolate.