Weekends Running

So Friday is schedule rest day, which apart from the spinning class and the 14 hour day, it was. Saw friends on the way home but was really really tired, so had an early night.

Saturday at work was horrible. Really stressful. Started off with alarm not going off, or me turning it off coz i was knackered. So was bit late. Oops. 50 viewings later ended up walking out in a strop. What is expected of us really is unreasonable. No time for a piss and definitely no time to even think about food. How are we expected to be all salesy when feeling like that. Mental. Really was. But January always is. Thank god only had to do a short plod after work One of those 5 miles in 45 mins jobbies. Really damn windy out there still, couple of the miles were actually quite tough, didn't feel great tonight, probably as result of hard day and felt tired for last few. Bit wiped out. But...

5 miles 44.57 8.59mm

1. 8.55
2. 9.00
3. 8.59
4. 8.59
5. 8.59

Good enough......


Sunday had a slight lie in, and a lovely 11 miles down the river in late morning. Was absolutely gorgeous for running down there today, bit cold, but not too much- had T shirt on and it was perfect. Sun out, lots of people down there. Really enjoyed it with the IPlod. However was battling with the body a bit which was insisting it wanted to run at 8.30 pace, thats really where I am most comfortable doing long runs, especially at these shorter distances, but I really must learn to trust the schedule thing as last year was such a disaster- getting to the start line would help.

So, very enjoyable, tho very frustratingly slow, had to be 9.05 pace today and really really was hard to hold back to that, but almost managed, got close enough. Plan was 11 miles in 1.40 (9.05mm)

11 miles 1.39.32 9.03mm

1. 8.55
2. 9.01
3. 9.02
4. 9.03
5. 9.04
6. 9.02
7. 9.04
8. 9.04
9. 9.04
10. 9.02
11. 9.04

Happy with how easy it felt anyways. Saw couple of lovely friends this arvo, had nice curry with Steve tonight- am about to burst, followed by couple of episodes of friends. Nice evening. Shame tomorrow is back to reality- 13 days till I next have a day off, looks like I'm working over 80 hours this week, hmmm that will be nice. When am I supposed to do this training exactly???