This morning I drove down to the canal again to do an interval session. I parked up on Rawlinson Lane in Heath Charnock and set off on my one mile warm up in the direction of Chorley.
After the warm up I did 5 x 1 mile repeats which I had intended to do at around a 7.45 pace, with 1/2 mile recovery jogs in between.
It didn't go quite to plan as I was feeling pretty tired this morning and the speed sections weren't as fast as they should have been.
The main thing is I didn't give up though and kept going, even though I was really tired. I was inspired by the quote on the wall in the altitude spin chamber:
DON'T STOP WHEN YOU'RE TIRED.
STOP WHEN YOU'RE DONE!
So that's what I did. I stopped when I was done. I had set out to do five reps and five reps I would do.
The reps were as follows:
Mile 1 - 7.55
Mile 2 - 7.43
Mile 3 - 8.07
Mile 4 - 8.19
Mile 5 - 8.14
So, as you can see, only one of them was at the required pace, the last two being WAY over.
Ah well at least I didn't give up altogether!
Total distance - 8.5 miles
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