Accidental progression run

Not a bad week, but it didn't start too well. I got a cold at the beginning of the week, and my nose was running faster than my feet ever could, so Tuesday's and Wednesday's runs went out the window. By Wednesday it was coming good, so Thursday night's Run Club was back on the agenda. I have to admit, though, that I was not particularly excited when I found out that it was Time Trial night. Normally I don't mind time trials, but coming off the sickness, I just didn't feel like running flat out.

Anyhow, I figured that I'd do the first km at pace and see how I was going. At that point, it turned out that I was on pb pace, so I kept going - very evenly as it turns out - and ended up with an 8 second pb of 11:40. Very, very surprised, and happy too.

I was going to run on Friday to make up for the missed days earlier in the week, but Tiger Angel set me straight - you don't make up sessions. There lies madness (and injury), so I waited till Saturday midday and TA and I went for a run together (yay!). We did 5k at 6:30 pace, and then she headed home and I kept going for a nice bush run. 65 minutes all up, but I ended it with a little niggle in my ankle.

I was intending to do the 10 Bridges run with Striders this morning, but last night I realised that
a) it was going to be very cold, and
b) I was only going to get a few hours sleep if I got up in time to get over there.
Consequently, I switched to doing a double of my local 14k loop. Unfortunately, although that meant that I could get extra sleep, it didn't do anything about the cold. Sheesh, was it cold! I've never felt anything like it! The backs of my hands were so cold they ached, and that's never happened before. Ice was everywhere, all over the cars and the lawns. The sun rose about half way through the run and it started to warm up, but it was only when I was out of shade (not often) that I felt comfortable.

The odd thing that I noticed was that as I got warmer, I got faster, so the day turned into an accidental progression run. I started off at about 6 minute pace in the freezing cold, and ended up doing 4:50s in the full sun. Remind me not to race in those kinds of temperatures... (TA, wisely choosing not to run two days in a row, took the dog for a walk, but she had gloves, a fleecy jacket and a beanie. I know who was the smarter of the two of us :-)

Sad thing was that the niggle in the ankle popped its head up again. I'm going to have to watch it with C2S, W2B and Blackmores all coming up.

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