{"id":1421,"date":"2010-09-01T16:28:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T15:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2010-09-03T16:41:51","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T15:41:51","slug":"last-intervals-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/last-intervals-before\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Intervals Before&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/durdham-downs-beyond-parrys-lane-246712.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1422\" src=\"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/durdham-downs-beyond-parrys-lane-246712-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/durdham-downs-beyond-parrys-lane-246712-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/durdham-downs-beyond-parrys-lane-246712.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 &#8211; a little late, I know.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know what it is but I am so much more comfortable with distance than speed &#8211; I seldom feel that I can really push myself into really going any faster.\u00a0 I\u2019m 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p>My lungs were bursting at the end, and the result? I came in 3 seconds slower!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; a little late, I know. I don\u2019t know what it is but I am so much more comfortable with distance than speed &#8211; I seldom feel that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[139,134,98,140],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-barefoot-running-diaries","tag-bristol","tag-downs","tag-half-marathon","tag-intervals","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions\/1430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}