I had to force myself out tonight having dozed off on the sofa before even doing the bath/bed thing for my lad.
I decided to do the same 10 mile loop I managed to get round last Sunday morning but, inspired by my Friday run where I came in just under 9min/mile for 5 miles, I would try and stick at that pace for the first 6 miles and then slow down to 10min/miles.
I managed the first bit of that, but my later miles were slightly slower meaning I did the 10 miles in 1:34:36 when if I'd managed to stick to my planned pace i'd have been 1:34:00 dead. It still means I beat last week's run by 6 whole minutes and clocked my fastest 10km of 56:32. I feel slightly disappointed with the 10km time and wonder how accurate it is. If I completed 6 miles in 53:20 and did the next mile in 9:47, then the first .21 mile of that mile to get me to 10km should have been done in about 2 minutes to give me a 10km time of around 55:30.
Saw lots of foxes tonight including some on the beach - we gave each other a scare. The only other incident of note was a bloke emerging from the shadows in an isolated stretch of seafront on East Worthing shouting and pointing and clutching a can of Kronenbourg. I can now understand why people run faster during events when there is a crowd shouting at them, although I doubt people in halves and marathons run the risk of having a can of export strength lager lobbed at them. It made my 5th mile my fastest as I upped my pace a bit to escape!
Other than that, the only other thing to report is a blood splattered top on my right chest. My nipple doesn't look like it's been bleeding and doesn't even feel sore (the other one is) but I need to find a way to protect myself now I'm running longer distances.
I decided to do the same 10 mile loop I managed to get round last Sunday morning but, inspired by my Friday run where I came in just under 9min/mile for 5 miles, I would try and stick at that pace for the first 6 miles and then slow down to 10min/miles.
I managed the first bit of that, but my later miles were slightly slower meaning I did the 10 miles in 1:34:36 when if I'd managed to stick to my planned pace i'd have been 1:34:00 dead. It still means I beat last week's run by 6 whole minutes and clocked my fastest 10km of 56:32. I feel slightly disappointed with the 10km time and wonder how accurate it is. If I completed 6 miles in 53:20 and did the next mile in 9:47, then the first .21 mile of that mile to get me to 10km should have been done in about 2 minutes to give me a 10km time of around 55:30.
Saw lots of foxes tonight including some on the beach - we gave each other a scare. The only other incident of note was a bloke emerging from the shadows in an isolated stretch of seafront on East Worthing shouting and pointing and clutching a can of Kronenbourg. I can now understand why people run faster during events when there is a crowd shouting at them, although I doubt people in halves and marathons run the risk of having a can of export strength lager lobbed at them. It made my 5th mile my fastest as I upped my pace a bit to escape!
Other than that, the only other thing to report is a blood splattered top on my right chest. My nipple doesn't look like it's been bleeding and doesn't even feel sore (the other one is) but I need to find a way to protect myself now I'm running longer distances.
