Training Log Archive: slow-twitch

Similar to last weekend's run only I thought I would have added some distance both in Hagley Park and the homeward stretch. But apparently either not much or I must have been going a bit quicker, because I thought that would more than compensate for the lack of a walking break. Speaking of which, without having any target in mind, included what would have been over an hour of continuous running had it not been for one pause for traffic early on. While I still haven't ticked off anything else on this weekend's to-do list, much better than yesterday's lazy day!

Thought this was going to be a bit of a fail as I had a serious case of the don'twannas when I first got started. But only goal was a 2nd weekday session so I suppose just getting out would have been a win. Rather than yet another Hagley variant, struck out for Riccarton Bush to see if it had reopened (nope), then cut through Mona Vale and a short stretch up the railway before extending the run with what I'm going to call some completely intentional exploring (as opposed to have been living in the area for well over a year now and still learning how some of the streets do and don't link up) and all in all was feeling like a nice run by the end. Sorry, don'twannas, better luck next time.

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Once again the warm-up was probably a bit on the quick side to really be an appropriate warm-up, but I think I didn't really decide I was doing the 5k test until I was already in the park.

5km (well a bit short really, I did the 3 laps that make up the Hagley 5k but any added distance would definitely have been less than the detour into the finish that they add) (which makes the time even less impressive). I think that was as fast as I could: while I was often consciously pulling the pace back a bit, I needed to to go the distance and avoid outbreaks of walkitis. We'll call this a line in the sand and hopefully will improve over future efforts.