Long and wet run. From home out to High Bradfield, Back Tor (miserable), Strines (depressingly felled), Dale Dike (where I nearly ended up running the whole way round), Lower Bradfield and then home. Felt fairly good running and tried to keep the pace just above a plod.
Running4:00:00 [2] 21.83 mi (11:00 / mi) +914m9:44 / mi
Knocked off work early to squeeze in a long run. Probably over packed my bag a little so took it even steadier than planned. Very windy on top of Burbage and horizontal rain is always nice.
Ran from work, took a loop round Burbage and then along Stanage, Redmires and home.
Track session. 5 x 1600m. Felt really tired on the way, but bouncier during the session itself.
Had convinced myself that I was just going to worry about doing 5 minutes rather than 1600m as didn't think I was going to make the distance. It was therefore a real pleasant surprise to do them all in under 5 minutes (4.57, 4.55, 4.55, 4.55, 4.54). Sometimes you really can't tell how you are going to run during a session - you would think I would have worked this out by now.
Long slow jog back with Pete, discussing the benefits of the traditional 2 week summer break between track and XC season.
Running1:11:45 [5] 6.87 mi (10:27 / mi) +927m7:22 / mi
Leg 4 of the Ian Hodgson relay. Ran with Rhesus. He was on fire today and kept the pace up on the uphill and was descending like a mountain goat. We got the route pretty much spot on. Second on the leg.
Team were 5th overall. We can and will do better.
Running35:00 [2] 4.0 mi (8:45 / mi)
Very short warm up and a longer warm down to recover the car.