After looking at a few different plans, we settled on the Royal Parks Foundation's half-marathon training plan as a basic guide, but that we would essentially do what we wanted. I personally like the RPF plan because it has training weeks dated exactly to race day. I know, little things. There are intervals (starting at: run really fast for 1 minute, walk for 1 minute, etc), longer intervals (starting at: 5mins easy pace, 10mins a bit faster, 5mins easy) and long runs at the weekend.
So we decided to try a longer interval run. I was still recovering from my cough and really not ready for that push. The faster pace was at 6min/km and I managed 4.5 minutes but my breathing was ragged and my legs really hurt. Kirsty and Mark were both along and they slowed down with me, but my legs hurt so much that eventually I had to stop. They kept running for a bit and, during this whole thing, I've never felt worse than when I watched them run on. Very frustrating, but a couple of ciders in the pub afterwards helped somewhat.
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