Things started out well, and I was holding a good pace up until about mile 5, but then I gradually started to slow and towards the end I was struggling to stay faster than 9 min/mi at times! The run was supposed to be 18 miles but I passed near home at 17 and decided I’d had enough.
Guessing it was a mixture of my lingering cold/cough (although the cough is almost gone now thankfully), poor diet and routine over the Christmas period, and the crappy weather. I suppose yesterday’s tempo run, however poor, wouldn’t have helped either.
Pretty hard not to take a knock in confidence after a crappy week like this, but training could have gone a lot worse I suppose, and I still managed to put nearly fifty miles in the bank. Hoping now I’m getting over this cough, and will be getting back in to my usual routine, I can have a much better week next week!
| Lap | Time | Distance | Pace | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 2:23:26 | 17.2 mi | 8:21 min/mi | 176 |
| 1 | 19:55 | 2.54 mi | 7:49 min/mi | 174 |
| 2 | 8:07 | 0.99 mi | 8:11 min/mi | 179 |
| 3 | 30:53 | 3.73 mi | 8:16 min/mi | 176 |
| 4 | 25:39 | 3.02 mi | 8:29 min/mi | 176 |
| 5 | 28:56 | 3.34 mi | 8:40 min/mi | 177 |
| 6 | 14:04 | 1.57 mi | 8:56 min/mi | 176 |
| 7 | 15:48 | 1.80 mi | 8:47 min/mi | 178 |