Training Log Archive: LiamB

Was feeling a bit coldy and wiped out last night. Better in the morning but decided not to double up to be safe. To Oriam then easy round the loop in a wee group

Plan was 5,10,15,10,5 in a session I got from scouring Peter's log for fun looking threshold sessions. Juan injured himself playing basketball in the morning so resigned myself to grinding it out solo. Cruised round the first 5 in 5:43 pace feeling good. This was the sort of pace I was hoping to hit for the whole thing. Start of the second one a random runner tags on. I go a wee bit quicker and he sticks with it and asks to join in so we get chatting and find out he's Ewan from corstorphine. Turns out he works on campus and was out to do a similar sort of tempo session himself so worked well to just jump in on mine. He then proceeded to drag me along for the rest of the session at a very quick pace. Did a little bit of power of 10 stalking afterwards and he's much better than me. 32:09 10k pb and he won Tinto in 2016 ahead of a lot of people who are quicker than I am. Very grateful for the company and turned what could have been a slog into a great session. Didn't have enough left in the tank to do the last 5 and Ewan didn't fancy it either. Feeling ruined afterwards. The first 10 was definitely too quick and hurting a lot on the last one but beforehand I would have been happy with that sort of pace.

Paces: 5:43, 5:28,5:37,5:45