Racer

Felt good for the first time since MM.  The pace was comfortable at 7:45 :-)

My running group holds an annual 2km time trial.  This year the course was shifted due to Olympic Park being turned into a Collingwood training track (have a long, slow and painful death, Eddie) so it was run around 2 bridges over the Yarra River on a slightly short course (1.94km). 

Given the complete lack of recent running I was expecting anything between 7:00 and 7:30.  I actually ran 6:51 and was stoked with it especially when I saw it was a significant negative split.

1.00km - 3:39 (5:52 pace)
0.94km - 3:12 (5:29 pace)

1.94km - 6:51 (5:41 pace) 

So without counting chickens it seems like the legs are back.  I have a Corporate Cup lap of the Tan on Thursday, if I can run close to a PB there I'll feel like I'm back :-)

PS - this took longer to write than it did to run... 

Scorcher today so no way I was going to go and do a CC lap of the Tan so did 4 x 3:00 with 1:00 stationary recoveries with Damo in Williamstown. 

Was already hut and humid at 7am...

1.  805m  (6:00 pace)
2.  820m  (5:53 pace)
3.  825m  (5:50 pace)
4.  826m  (5:50 pace)

Total  2.04 Miles @ 5:53 pace.

Solid session, felt flat after Tuesday but looks like my body is starting to come back to even keel.

Might try to get in to Albert Park for the 5km Park Run on Saturday.

Run to work.  Disgustingly hot and humid at 6am!

As bad as Tuesday was good.  Went out too hard resulting in a minor implosion.  Managed to hold on for 6th getting passed in the last 100m.

Splits:

KM	Split	Min/Mile
1	03:42.6	05:58.1
2	03:47.2	06:05.6
3	03:55.1	06:18.3
4	03:59.5	06:25.3
5	03:49.9	06:09.8
Total	19:14.3	06:11.5

Plenty of room for improvement :-)