Week 8 complete
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c25kI did that thing of getting straight out of bed and heading to the gym, planning to shower and put on clean clothes after I exercised. Which would be rather more impressive if I'd woken up before midday, but hey.
Anyway, made it to 24½ minutes at 7.2 kph, so 7/8 of the workout before completing the last 3½ minutes at 6.8 kph. I think I was right to slow down when I did, even though it was fairly close to the end, because I needed to take my inhaler by the end of the workout. My usual trick of telling myself to keep going until I only have a small fraction left, at which point I might as well complete the whole thing, isn't working as well now that even "the last 10%" is 3 minutes of running, hard to do when you're already barely keeping going at the end of a workout.
The distance wasn't measurably further than day 2, 3.8 km in 33 minutes including the warmup. But still, 24½ minutes at the faster pace instead of 21 minutes is still progress, and I think I've reached another stage where I'm genuinely close to the limit of what I can physically do. So I'll keep working at this to push that limit. The increment from 28 to 30 minutes next week should be possible, even if I have to slow down for the last part, and I'm hoping to break 4 km!
Anyway, made it to 24½ minutes at 7.2 kph, so 7/8 of the workout before completing the last 3½ minutes at 6.8 kph. I think I was right to slow down when I did, even though it was fairly close to the end, because I needed to take my inhaler by the end of the workout. My usual trick of telling myself to keep going until I only have a small fraction left, at which point I might as well complete the whole thing, isn't working as well now that even "the last 10%" is 3 minutes of running, hard to do when you're already barely keeping going at the end of a workout.
The distance wasn't measurably further than day 2, 3.8 km in 33 minutes including the warmup. But still, 24½ minutes at the faster pace instead of 21 minutes is still progress, and I think I've reached another stage where I'm genuinely close to the limit of what I can physically do. So I'll keep working at this to push that limit. The increment from 28 to 30 minutes next week should be possible, even if I have to slow down for the last part, and I'm hoping to break 4 km!
