Hi,
It seems I’m struggling with my blog writing nowadays, and it really seems hard to find time for the writing, but let’s see; I wouldn’t like to stop writing entirely as I have the feeling it would have a negative impact on my overall writing skills etc.
The past week was pretty good when it comes to the reached number of run kilometres. Until last week I hadn’t been able to reach a single week with over 50k this year! Finally I succeeded with it. The long run, however, was a disaster, but in this case it’s the total that counts. 🙂
After the tempo run I had a really peaceful run with a slow pace on Wednesday to get some recovery but nevertheless to keep going. On Thursday I went for an intervall training with 12 repeats of 400 metres with a relatively high pace. I still don’t like this kind of workouts, but I try to keep focused as I think they provide a good basis for improving the 10k best time. On Friday I concentrated to have a beer and a good rest after the work. Saturday’s workout was an easy run – about 10k. Lately I have been often running the route of Vahrer-Seen-Lauf. On the one hand I get to know the route and maybe start figuring out a strategy for the race, but on the other hand I simply love the route now that the spring has awaken.
Yesterday’s longish run was a disaster. During the day we did some barbecue in the park and I really ate too much. On top of that I ate more – and pretty heavy stuff for the evening supper. I have hardly fealt worse ever when I have started my workout than yesterday. I had to walk the first 5k and after that it started to feel better. During the last 10k I felt nearly normal. The idea of having a longish progressive run was partly ruined, but at least I could get some quicker mileage in the end, and this really gave me a lesson: Think about carefully what you eat on the day of a workout! This week I promise to be more careful. 🙂
Tonight I started the week with the first workout. Actually my training plan suggested me to have a day off from the running, but I couldn’t stay at home as the weather was unbelieavable warm and called for a run. Secondly, TomTom finally provided an update for the Spark training watch so I wanted to see what new features had been packed to the update. After the first 6 months the things I mostly miss are first of all more accurate GPS capabilities – now I tend to run on the freeway, in the lake etc., at least when you have look ath the graph provided by the watch after the workout. Secondly I hope to see the promised smartphone notifications. Let’s see – I haven’t completely given up the hope yet, but I’m afraid there will a new model of the watch in the autumn and after that there probably won’t be any new features added to the watch.