11, miles in total. did 5 miles at long run pace, sort of, 7.15-7.30 pace, over sand dunes, along me Paul Howells Route, back to front. hoggs hill, barracks, along barracks to hightown crosby sanddunes, paths past iron men, then through blundellsands, past school, over to main roundabout in before crosby, along past lidel, and down thru ince, by-pass back to gym. so picked pace up after 5 miles slowly, to 6.40 6.45 pace, for 1 mile to mile 7 5mins 34 secs to mile 8 6mins 28 to mile 9 6 mins 31 secs to mile 10 6 mins 29 secs had to stop just after mile 10 to cross a road off the by-pass, 45 secs stop last mile 11 6mins 15 secs total time 1hr 14 mins for 11 miles, not bad as it is hilly in place's but very flat mostly, and with slow miles for the start, shows you can pick the pace up for a race if you start conservative which isnt something I do in races. all in all a really good session, tempo run. Cold damp and slight cold breeze, but good sunny day. slept ok, but not great, got 7 hours of broken sleep, really broken! Reward for today is not cooking, and going the chippy for the 1st time in over 6 months! I DIDNT enjoy it as much as I thought though! and I opted for egg fried rice, thought it was healthier, and nicked some chips! So easy day tomorrow, and I have at last had the go ahead from my coach tonight saying I can start doing 1 mile reps on Sat, easy day Sunday, then 1mile reps on Monday. I know what your all going to say, bit close for similar sessions, but and this is a big but, ( not mine, well maybe lol) I am only doing 3 x 1mile on Sat @ 6 min pace and no faster, with as much recovery as I want, make sure my legs are deffo ok. then Monday its 4 x 1 mile with 3 min recovery at hopefuly 5.40 pace or thereabouts. still not got round to weighing myself, another couple of weeks of decent mileage and I might venture on to the scales, I went through a phase early last year of weighing myself twice a day, and being obsessive, OCD is my middle name, I have to be obsessive over something, when I was pregnant as I couldnt train properly it was cleaning, omg I cleaned the whole house at least once every day, and washed bedsheets like every other day! funny now, as I am so into my training which has overtaken my life, I just dont have time to obsess about the house at all, its more oh Ill do it tomorrow, get round to it, later! anyways enough rambling today hey!
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