5 x 1km

Date: Thu, Oct 22 (12:30pm)
Conditions: Mild and quite humid, breezy
Location: Gore Hill Oval, St Leonards
Session: 5 x 1km, 2:30 active recovery (was 3 in the diary, but eh), 3:26 (!), 3:38, 3:46, 3:44, 3:37
Sleep: 7 1/4 hours, pretty reasonable although I failed to get up for the morning Timbrell Park intervals.
Feeling: Bit tired but okay. Some residual stiffness in the legs

Got home later than expected from the motorshow on Wed night so set myself up to fail to arise when the alarm went to head over to Timbrell. Got hold of silver fox to hook up for 1k intervals at the Gore Hill oval, in front of the RNS, and we met up at about 12:30pm.

Two lap warm up was a bit shorter than normal. Into the first rep, and I thought we were a bit hot - so it proved with a 3:26. Paid for this through the rest of the session, with the times a bit all over the shop. Got a half-decent on in on the last where I ran with silver fox, who comprehensively hosed me - he'll make some comment about running the inside track but he was quicker, no doubt about it. Surface is a good one for intervals - uneven enough to provide good training, but not so much as to potentially cause injury. It was pretty heavy underfoot.

Still, good to get it done. Fact is, not so long ago, in the same circumstances I would simply have missed that session.

Cheers, silver fox!