Today Madi and I were both on a 'different page' of the marathon schedule - intermediate!. I rested yesterday following my 6 mile machine run on Sunday but Madi hadn't been able to run on Sunday, she got home from work at 8.30 last night and did 30 minutes on the machine and then she got up early this morning and took herself out for 6 miles. I explained the cross-roads where she needed to turn and off she went. She was back just after 45 minutes later having completed the 6 miles. I thought 'hang on, we have another Paula in the making' but no, she had turned at the wrong cross-roads, she had done around 4 miles, still a very good time though, too quick for me!.
Anyway, she got out which was excellent. I then did 30 minutes on the machine when I finished work and despite my best efforts still couldn't beat my time, in fact, I was 0.02 km down on the last 30 minutes I did. I got up to 8.2 km an hour for the final . . . . 30 seconds!. I felt like Mo Farah but still looked like a penguin. Why do I never get any faster?
Tomorrow is a 40 minute tempo run which means doing a bit of 'sprinting' every now and then - at least it feels like sprinting to me, in reality it's just a penguin in a rush.
Running for health, happiness and a good laugh whatever your age, size or fitness level
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