Sweathog

After the success from yesterday back into the serious schedule today which means speed.

Down to the nearest Fitness First near my hotel in Melbourne for a menu of 1km reps. After the last attempt at this I decided to set the pace at 3:55 min/km and see how I went. To my amazement I knocked out 8 reps and was still going ok so notched the pace up to 3:50 for the last 2. So this gave me 10km in 39 minutes and the old rule of thumb was this type of session (with a standing rest of half the run time) was a good yardstick on a 10km time.

After looking back through my previous sessions this looks like my best ever session and it did not turn out to be a "stretcher" session! Maybe the treadmill was not calibrated right I don't know....

Did manage to pick up a slight blister on the top of the ankle, medium/long run tomorrow morning (back home!)

Oh and the sweathog title comes from the absolute drenching I gave the treadmill and the fact that I hogged it for 75 minutes :)