It has been a quiet weekend. Paine Field has had its main runway closed, so on a weekend where I have no travel planned or anything crazy like running a triathlon, it makes it REALLY quiet. I haven’t spent any time going back and forth to Paine Field. It meant I have had plenty of time to catch up on a lot of things, finishing off stories for AirlineReporter (like the one that went live today) or get some stuff done around the house. I have even had the time to do most of the packing for my trip to NZ this week. The weekend was just so quiet yet so awesome at the same time. I was able to get get a haircut and try a few different things and now as my weekend comes to a close, it feels kind of weird to not be running around like crazy finishing things off.
Really happy with my training over the weekend. Saturday was bootcamp and I went for a 2 mile warm up run before the session but the session was a challenge as well as we were taking on the hill. I think I went a little to hard to fast on the first hill run as I could not manage the top, something I have done in the past many times without hassle. Eagerness is not always a good thing it seems. But I managed to concur the hill in the second time around and I was happy to do so. Really happy. I came home from bootcamp totally satisified. After a half decent nights sleep last night, I headed out on my training run for the 10k at the end of this month. I am happy with my run this morning, but not overly so.
That was my run this morning and it may look good, but not when you break it down. I am trying to Average 6 min kms for the 10k as I really want to try and get under 1 hour, and keeping it at that level is where I need to be. But breaking down the run it was off pace. I was on pace up until the last km or so which if you check the splits, that’s what I was at. So did I tire out in the last km or did I just screw up? I don’t know to be honest as the first 2km were mostly uphill as I run Punishment Hill as part of the course. Normally if I was running this route as a distance route (rather than punishment) I would run it with Punishment Hill at the end, so that I have the downhill to pick up some speed and as a bit of a reward before powering the last km home. But today it was a bit about pushing myself to do some more uphill training (the last part of the MCM10k is uphill) so the first part of my run was uphill and it was tough but the splits were spot on, they should be that slow. So maybe I just screwed up?
I am quite proud of myself so far this weekend though, being so quiet, old habits could easily come out. But I have kept it under control and I am looking good heading into the start of the trip to NZ. I did give in to a little treat at breakfast this morning but well, I need some reward right? What did I do, well I had some of the Biscoff spread I bought a couple of weeks back and finally cracked open this morning. O M G, this stuff is the BOMB. Way better than peanut butter (And thats saying something coming from me). Amazing and delicious… probably taste pretty awesome stirred into some ice cream… hrmmm now I have ideas!