Laura's Running Blog

3 in the am, 3 in the pm.  All easy as I was leading jog groups!  Lovely weather at last.  Looking forward to local 5K tomorrow night.  Haven't entered yet, but you can enter on the spot.  Nice flat 2- laps.  Will probably be tired on a Monday night but will do my best!

Nice friendly and actually quite big race in my local London Park.  Lots of club runners -- a real running nerd fest (in a good way )--  and fast field.   I imagine the winner will post a 15:xx.  This is a series that takes place on Monday nights throughout the summer, so I am using them kind of as training runs to practice pushing myself and dealing with race nerves.  I always get really nervous at these 5Ks for some reason, even though nobody really knew I was doing this and there was nothing at stake at all.  I just wanted to do well.

Easy enough course.  Totally pancake flat  2 laps on wide, traffic free park paved paths.  Warm with a breeze, so perfect conditions, really  

I ran 22:02.   Not quite as quick as I hoped, but this is my fastest time since 2007 (still a minute and 7 secs off PB ...how did I ever run that fast?). I put on a spurt at the end for a sub 22:00, amazingly finding a new gear I didn't realize I had, but not soon enough. Arg.  Those 2 seconds.  Oh well.  Maybe next week,  now I know the course.  

 Not a fast time, but 7th woman over 30.  9th woman overall.  214 runners, not sure how many women.  Missed out n a "top 7" medal by 2 places.

To and from gym.  Way back a little quicker than way there.  Hot weather, but I'm not complaining.

Feeling a bit off form this week.  After the race on Monday I felt nauseated and it has continued on through the week.  Can't just be from running, as usually that kind of sick feeling goes away after a couple of hours...and surely I can race 5K at 7:05 pace without a total body shutdown!  So maybe a bug?  Skipped my tempo run on Tuesday and also did not run today as feeling wipe out.  That coupled with overdoing it on the strength work and quads feeling literally (and I do mean literally) like I've run a marathon. 

Gotta start getting in some lower intensity longer runs (at least one a week, anyway) to mix things up a bit!  Am thinking running 5-6 times a week is, as usual, going to be too much for me and aim for a good for.  Would love to get a spin class in there somewhere, but can't seem to find the time slot. 

Oh, I was 9th female on Monday night.  214 runners total (not sure how many women).  The top 7 get medals so I just missed out. 

Slow to the gym.  On the way back I did a different session.  Runner Faster intervals. AP was only 7:54 as I guess there were longer recoveries, but the faster intervals were some of the hardest/fastest I've done and I struggled a bit.