Week interrupted (pt 1)

Not exactly to plan... The water running on Tuesday was fine (5m warm up, 7 x 2min hard, 1m recovery, 5m warm down followed by 3 sets of 10 squats and lunges), but last week's lurgy was still making itself felt. On Wednesday morning, TA disappeared early to train some clients, and when my alarm went off at 5:50, I thought "I'm not feeling great. Maybe I'll cut it back to 10k" and rolled over. Later on, I readjusted to 5k, and eventually decided that I really wasn't up to running. TA arrived home about 9:30 to find me still there, and there I stayed... Her words of greeting were "you should have stayed in bed 5 days ago", and as always, she was probably right.

I felt *much* better by the end of the day, so I did the normal pushie ride and Run Club on Thursday with no apparent after effects. Run Club was Tim's 'mini-6ft', a 1.27k loop across a number of surfaces - 400m on grass, up a long concrete ramp, (walk!) down a couple of flights of stairs and then a flat bitumen loop.


I went out with Kar Soon (CR KSL) and Rob (CR Mr WT) for the first lap, having a nice chat, and then they cleared out. Splits were 6:18, 6:06, 6:07 ,6:08 & 6:11, so after the chat lap, it was all pretty even (pace 4:50). Followed with some strength work (lunges and hovers), and then we retired to the pub to celebrate Run Club's 2nd anniversary. Happy Birthday! :-) As we'd done some strength work on Thursday night, I excused myself from repeating it on Friday morning, which brings us to Friday night... (to be continued)