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1 September, 2010 By Soul Man Leave a Comment

Last Intervals Before…

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Today is my last training session before the Bristol Half, so I decided to run the same intervals sessions around The Downs to build up my speed – a little late, I know.

I don’t know what it is but I am so much more comfortable with distance than speed – I seldom feel that I can really push myself into really going any faster.  I’m probably just not putting the training in. But today I gave it a go and began to convince myself that I was going faster, despite the heat.

I also find it so tempting to cheat and ease up the speed on the Recovery and Steady sections, even though I know I would only be cheating myself, and no one else gives a flying fig.  But I did not give in to temptation and I kept to what I thought were the right paces for the right intervals and only allowed myself to up my speed on the Sprint.

My lungs were bursting at the end, and the result? I came in 3 seconds slower!

Filed Under: barefoot running diaries Tagged With: Bristol, Downs, Half Marathon, Intervals

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