Decide to run the parkrun course twice at lunch time. It’s familiar and I want to support parkrun freedom. The intention is to run the first one slightly slower than marathon pace and the second one slightly faster. I’ve already run several at marathon pace (about 23 minutes), so I reckon one at 24 minutes and another at 22 minutes should give me a feel for the right pace.
It takes an age to get going, then I find I’m going too quickly and have to slow down for the last kilometre. I end up with 23:49. After a drink and a couple of jelly babies I wander back to the start and I’m away again. It’s really difficult to judge the pace when there’s nobody else running the course. There are plenty of walkers and people cutting through the park, but the only runners I see are ones running in the opposite direction. I can’t sustain the pace and end up doing the second run in 22:21. I’m not sure how useful an exercise this has been as I’ve still got Sunday’s run in my legs and can’t seem to go as fast as I’d like. I hope that by Thursday evening I’ll be able to run quicker as we’re doing speedwork – 300m repetitions - with the distance running group.
I find I’ve left the car in a permit holders only place, but seem to have got away with it. When I get back I find I can’t enter my parkrun freedom times as the link is on my weekly newsletter and we always delete two of the three weekly e-mails we get and as luck would have it none of the ones we’ve kept is mine.
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