In my last post, I mentioned that I was doing 5/5 run/walk intervals. I have since graduated to 10/1 intervals, which is what I did when I trained for the half-marathons I did with Team in Training. I am, in fact, in my fourth week of training with he run team. You can follow my training on my RunKeeper page (registration required), should you so please.
If you do take a gander at my RunKeeper page, one thing you might notice is that I’ve got some catching up to do compared to the level I was at in 2012. To give you an idea of what I mean, here are two versions of my “Personal Records” summary from RunKeeper, one that covers 2011 to 2014 and another that covers the last three months.
Take a look at my best average pace. Consider that the month of May of this year is when I was still doing run/walk intervals of 5 min/5 min without any hill training. The average pace for this morning’s run was 8:30 min/km. Is it my cardio that still hasn’t bounced back? Is it the beta-blocker I’m taking to prevent migraines that’s making me slower? Is it the heat? All of the above? All I know for sure is that I’ll keep hammering away at the pavement and see what I can achieve by race day.
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