Wednesday Run 1st Oct

Wednesday Oct 1st

So it worked.

My older son Ben who runs was saying I was doing this all wrong and that I should run slower and steadier and not stop and see how that would work out. So was at Heathrow airport today and stopped off at ours in the early evening to run with me and see if he could see me through a proper run. I'd watched some videos on Youtube and what he was saying correalated with experts advice. 

So the run was quite late and I'd had some tucker before we set out. I wasn't sure whether I'd be able to sustain a full 5K, but was going to give it a go.

We set off a what was quite a pace, but he was doing the thing where he was encouraging me and he had his strava on and it was tracking the pace and so he was feeding back whether to speed up or slow down. He'd pre-determined that I'd be aiming to to do 6.00/KM splits for each Kilometre and so that's what was aimed for. 

Sure enough down the first straight bit alonside Upper Mayne I was thinking 'I'm done with this I want to stop and walk - I'm not that bothered and it's boring' but he was still going and waffling on like a proper trainer and so I kept going and at each split after the first KM we were on track and faster than the proposed pace. On the last section between the lake and the finishing point I still had some extra 'Gas in the tank' and banged out a 5.36 kilometer...

In doing so I smashed the previous record by a lot.