My January total of runs now equals November and December. I'm finding two runs a week sensible to manage, plus my cross training. Circumstances conspired against my usual activities so I headed out for a short, quick run, and short and quick it was! I did my fitness test loop and got a PB of 00:10:34 for a 1.34 mile run. That's 4 minutes quicker than last year. Back in 2008, before there were two twinkles in my eyes, I did it in 18+ minutes with a mixture of running to a lamp post and panting to the next.
Since the HM, my runs have been fairly short, usually around the 30-40 minute mark, so I felt it was time to go for the hour / 6 mile zone, and I did! I've changed my pre run preparation as I've noticed that dairy seems to have inconvenient side effects, so today I went for an energy drink which seemed to give the right amount of fuel for the job without creating too much digestive work. My energy remained good, and I managed to maintain a good pace of running without burning out or needing to walk like usual, and that had a really positive effect on my pace. Most of my miles had a pace of 10 mins or less which bodes well for my 1 hour target in April.
Today I used my usual combination of Zombies app and music, but to encourage faster pacing on my shorter runs, I've recently downloaded some tracks aimed at specific paces. Not my favoured style of music, but it seems to be having a positive effect to getting to target.
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