Week 10: Wednesday - just running 5km

Still on a break

Yep, I’m still not doing what Runna wants of me. I ran today because I wanted to, and because of the no-2-rest-days thing, and that’s it. I ran 5km, in the cold. It felt decently fast, but it wasn’t, so I’m still finding myself angry at Runna because I’ve currently convinced myself that if I hadn’t dedicated 8 weeks to its stupid plan then I’d be faster right now than I am. Don’t know if it’s true and can’t ever know, but it’s how I feel. Upset has migrated to anger.

Moving time was 26:38 making it 5:19/km, which, yeah, meh. Albeit I lost a bunch of time first by having to walk behind 4 people hogging the pavement while a car stopped me going into the road, and a bit later waiting for much more traffic than is normal. You can see in the Garmin pace graph here:

I dunno what’s going on right now. I want to feel confident about the half marathon, but I honestly feel like all the time doing intervals and hills and shit has just made me … better at running hills, which I don’t care for, and better at running 200 metres faster. But worse at running 5k and much worse at any longer distances. Can this be true?