Training Log Archive: KingTim

As I was visiting mother for the weekend I just had to do the 10k race in the village where I grew up. It's part of a southern road running league so there was a good strong turnout.

Was never going to be a pb race cos there's a couple of hills at 5km and 8km, but I was pleased at how close I was to it.

Settled into 5th after 500m with 1&2 way ahead and accellerating and 3&4 a couple of hundred metres ahead. By 5km #4 had dropped back from #3 and I was gaining on him. Overtook him just before the first downhill, but he passed me on the downhill stretch. Climbing back up the other side he slowed and I passed him, and left him.

Finished in 4th place. Winner was 32-something.

5km in 17:41

Km splits:
3.24
3.39
3.30
3.30
3.38
3.42
3.40
3.37
3.40
3.36

In the New Forest for the weekend, so I made the most of the grey, wet, windy weather and ran around Wilverley, and Burley.

http://connect.garmin.com/player/45976601

Didn't enjoy this run. Felt like I'd hit the wall by the time I got to the end of our road. The rest of the run was hard work. Not so much the lungs as the legs and stomach. Just didn't feel like a runner today.

Westbury, Blaise, Henbury, airfield.

Easy little run around Westbury to test the lungs out. Felt fine once I'd cleared the airways.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/45219264

C • Really? 8

It was bound to happen. Spending the weekend with a sick 2 year-old during a period of hard training was always going to end like this.