Following on from a busy previous week, which had been stacked with races and sessions, perhaps unsurprisingly I had been feeling the effects of all that work through last week.
I managed to still get out and run every day, and put together two decent sessions, along with my long run as planned - so I got my intended workload done, albeit it was pretty hard going.
Monday was my usual steady club-night run, then on Tuesday I changed my speed session for the week to a fartlek run, in order to try and freshen things up a bit and also to try and allow for me to be able to run without the pressure of worrying about hitting certain paces or timings. I did a two mile warm up to start, and a two mile cool down to finish, alongside 7 x 1200m of effort off a 400m jog recovery. It was a surprisingly successful session, considering how leggy I felt during the warm up, and for the whole 10 miles total distance of the run I managed to average out at 6 minute mileing.
Then, after an easy recovery run on Wednesday, I did my weekly tempo run with Mr Affleck on the Thursday and we upped the distance once again, this time ending up with 10 miles at an average of 5:30 mpm pace. The most pleasing aspect of this session is the consistency of the pacing throughout the run - we had targeted running the ten miles in approx 55 minutes, so couldn't have paced it much better!
A final note for this week - a huge congratulations to my mum on winning her first running trophy tonight at the Wesham summer handicap race! She has come a long way since joining the club just over 12 months ago. It's obviously where I get my running genes from!
Total mileage for the week: 72
Average pace for the week (m/pm): 6:24
Total mileage for the month of August: 300
Total mileage so far this month (September): 44
Total mileage so far 2016: 2281
Average miles per day 2016: 9.27
