Very Easy

23 June 2006

I ran in afternoon for change, only because I wanted a sleep in, and no I did not watch the soccer.

I decided to try something different; I set the time alert on the garmin for 15minutes, with the aim of running for 15 minutes and the turning around. I didn't bother with pace and just ran on feeling. Very easy, just keep the legs moving and turn around with the first alarm and stop on the second. I ended up running 5.8km with an average pace of 5:12/km, which suprised me. I felt comfortable the whole way and really enjoyed just running without any pace or distance goal.

5K Challenge

After a late night helping celebrate Papa's 60th birthday, we dragged ourselves to the 5k Challenge. I was only running easy today, so I was only there for social reason. Ellie was starting the 28 minute group but hoping to improve on her recent PB of 27:15, so I offered to pace her for sub 27 minutes.

It was very foggy when we started and I took us out a little too quick reaching the 1km mark in 5:00 minutes, so we backed off. Ellie ran very strongly, and by the time we got to the 4k mark I told Ellie if she stuck with me a PB was in the bag, but it was up to her how big a PB she wanted. We kept it going and even picked up the pace in the last 80 metres giving Ellie a 46 second PB of 26:29.

I then jogged back and caught up with a few regulars before enjoying a great breakfast.