6.28 miles, 1.04.24
10 x 30 secs - 7.20, 7.11, 7.04, 7.11, 7.37, 6.54, 6.35, 6.52, 6.30, 7.02,
10 x 1 min - 7.33, 7.57, 7.36, 7.07, 7.24, 7.32, 8.02, 7.55, 7.24, 8.03,
10 x 30 secs - 7.51, 7.22, 7.11, 8.10, 7.48, 7.26, 7.41, 7.44, 7.22, 8.54,
Well I did it, that is about the best you can say about this session. I was feeling very sick before I started as I had made the mistake of having a very large latte earlier in the afternoon on an empty stomach and the combinatation of too much coffee and too much milk was not good! I then tried to drink lots of water to make up for it and that gave me my throat problem.
It was nice to be back and chat to people but that was about it. I was last or nearly last every time and I have not been like that in a while. It was quite a shock and I feel like all the progress I had made before I left has been totally wiped out. I was also aware though that I want to do a long run tomorrow and so I did not want to push it too hard either.
So instead of speed I have gone for length and have just posted off my entry for the HIGHLAND FLING RACE 2009! I intend to do the Devil of the Highlands as well as I want to do some significant fundraising for the school I was in in Malawi. You can organise special projects through LINK and depending on cost I would like to have a teacher’s house built. It is very difficult to get teachers to work in rural areas but if there are teacher’s houses this helps. I had asked the children, in the abstract, what would improve their school expecting the answer to be something materialistic as it would be here and what they said was more teachers which showed to me how keen they are to learn and that sold it to me. I have obviously not said anything to the school yet though.
I have updated my other blog again, be warned it is a long one! Click on the link on the right hand side.