Week 9: Tuesday - Long run

So long

Totally didn’t want to run today. After Saturday’s hills and yesterday’s speed stuff, I felt knackered in my quads and calves. But the calendar is relentless. Yet again, thank goodness it’s deload week.

Long run - 9km easy

I have so, so little to say about this. Cold morning but not too bad. 9km averaging 5:41/km moving, 5:49/km elapsed. The bonus 72 seconds were a consequence of stopping:

for traffic, after the level crossing came up
to let someone reverse out of their driveway
because children were taking up the whole path and it wasn’t safe to get in the road
to do my shoelaces up, which I can’t recall having doing mid-run for years
due to yet more hound interrogation

Didn’t feel anything like as easy as 5:41/km should. I went way faster than this in the Vitality 10km in September, before I started the training plan and that was on the back of being horribly ill for a week. Hell, my first run of the whole plan was 10km – having just got back from a boozy holiday – and on that day I managed 5:38/km.

Trusting the process is getting increasingly difficult.