Ran too hard?

I have really sore legs today, maybe I pushed it too hard on Wednesday?
New objective: run sub 54 minutes for 10k and still be able to walk 2 days later!

Midweek League Race 1@Bishops Stortford

Well, tonight we started our summer midweek league. That means the start of me skipping out of meetings early, rearranging meetings (or missing cocktails as happened this week) and getting the train to far flung places around and about. Well, actually, this year we aren't going to too many far flung places thanks goodness!

I managed to get there in plenty of time tonight thanks to the tube, a nice fast train and a taxi ride from the station. On my arrival, Derek had just got the numbers and Lissa was surfing in the car park... It was a little stressful trying to sort out the numbers when it was a bit breezy but we managed it ok and it was on to the race.

It was a lovely evening with a fantastic sunset, I just wish I had had my camera with me! The course was 10k according to the BSRR GPS measurement and was the same course as the last couple of times which looks a bit like a hilly lollipop!

So, on to the run itself. It went really well...I caugh Linda and Gill up which is very unlike me and although Linda strolled off in the last km (her legs are longer than mine) I put up a good showing. This was probably due to having Linda and Karen on my back for most of the race so I had to push quite hard. Lorraine informs me I did this in 55 minutes last year and I did Flitwick in 58 minutes but it looks like I finished this one in around 53:30 (I didn't have my watch on) which...wait for it...means I have met one of my SMART objectives already which was to run under 54 minutes for 10k. I am not going to settle with that, I now want to run under 54 minutes again! I do have a feeling it was a fluke but a repeatable fluke is less flukey somehow...

So, what happened? Where did that come from? Seemingly I have been doing very little training and I also find it hard to run the Midweek League races as I always feel like I have had a herculean journey to get to the races. The simple answer is I don't know but I will take it and enjoy it for a day or 2.

Splogging...

I am not sure if anyone noticed, but for a couple of days, my blog was no longer...
Your blog is disabled. Blogger's spam-prevention robots have detected that your blog has characteristics of a spam blog.
I don't know what I did, but apparently I made my blog look like a spam blog. What's a spam blog anyway?
Well, here's a definition from wikipedia...a spam blog is also known as a splog. So there.

Short training update - 11 May

Well, I've been getting back into training...a little bit at least. I've been able to keep up my gym work with my twice weekly circuits and occasional bootcamp classes (and only today noticed I had a new muscle in my arm).
As far as running is concerned, last week was a little tricky what with watching radio shows being recorded, committee meetings and Japanese classes but I did make it out on a lovely run on Saturday morning with CMJ, Chris and Sally. Here's the route:


The weather is lovely right now but I am not a good runner in the heat...too much extra ballast to carry...

So, here's this week's training log:
Mon: Impington 5k approx 27 mins
Tues: circuits
Thurs: circuits
Sat: 6 mile run and bootcamp

OK, so not exactly Olympic material but I'll get there!

Not tired, just not entirely bovvered...

I am not currently entirely enthused about running just now which is unlike me!
Over the bank holiday weekend, I didn't really feel like running (or the Thursday before) so I didn't really. I am not too worried about this, there will be enough running going on in the next few weeks with all the Midweek league races!
However, I did do a 5k on Monday in a village called Impington, near Cambridge.

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It was a village fun run and jolly nice it was too! I finished in 27:17 and really enjoyed it. My main fun was provided by watching the kids around me as they struggled to pace themselves round. They sprinted, walked, sprinted, walked and wily old Cook just kept plodding along and beat them in the end!

Charity pub crawl

I broke the rules and took some photos...this is the only one I will publish though!
And, I sent it from my phone, how clever is that!

Grown up press ups

I just had to share with you my latest achievement...I did 3 proper, real, grown up press ups yesterday at the gym! It's taken me 18 months of circuit training to train myself how to do this, I am rather pleased with myself.
Stupidly, I decided to show off to Gary last night by trying to demonstrate how I can do a grown up press up. This might be the cause of my sore arms and shoulders today, will I ever learn?