Easy week (??)

As noted in the last update, the scheduled easy week started early last weekend, courtsey of the miserable weather and a severe case of Sudden Onset Shopaholics Disease (SOSD).

With the intent to keep the week short and sharp rather than short and slow, Tuesday was a windsprint session (1k warm up, 10 x 110m with 80m float recovery, and 1k cool down). Splits were 22, 24, 24, 22, 22, 23, 22, 22, 22, which'll do me :-). Started to feel the hip flexor (or adductor or something in that area) that always has a quiet whinge when woken up to do sprints, so happy to stop at 10.

Wednesday was to be a threshold run, aiming for 5k on a hilly course at 1/2M goal pace (4:30). Did exactly that (though the middle k was a bit sluggish). Generally happy.

Thursday night at run club was the first track session for the season (because we finally have enough light thanks to daylight saving) and guess what Tim has planned? Yep, windsprints! Aaarrrgggghhh! We started with 2 x 800 (400 splits were 1:36, 1:43, then 1:33, 1:38) followed by 10 minutes of windsprints. Finished with 3 x 400 and 2 x 200, but as my groin was complaining about 2 sets of sprints in the one week, I backed off and ran with Micro for most of them, and then called it a night with one to go. Discretion being the better part of valor and all that... :-)

My training diary note for Thursday was "Not one of those great nights. I feel like I'm slowing down, not speeding up. Losing confidence about Central Coast". I don't remember writing that, so I guess that's what diaries are for.

On Saturday, Mr WT and I were supposed to meet up with the Striders 6ft training group for the first run of the season. Because of trafic delays on his part and consumate stupidity on mine, we missed the start, so we drove up the the turnaround point and joined them there. It was a really nice run through the bush from Thornleigh to North Ryde and back, with the exception that the climb up to Thornleigh oval at the end was a killer. I know that 6ft will be immesurably worse, but it was the first session...

Thus endeth the 'down' week, so this morning was back to normal. I didn't want to travel to the Star, so I just did a local 23k on my own. Felt particularly ugly (the run, not me), a fact borne out by the first 3 ks (6:20, 6:10 & 6:10), but I picked it up a bit after that to end up averaging 5:25, which is in the middle of my long run pace range, so I guess I shouldn't complain. Still, it was just one of those get-it-done, not-particularly-enjoyable slogs.

Rest day tomorrow, so I guess I'll just have to slog my way through that too :-) :-)

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p.s. Tiger angel has been getting up to all sorts of good stuff, but I'll leave her to tell you about it (and leave you to pester her if she doesn't... :-))