Remaining on my training calendar this week was a three mile easy jog and an 8.5 mile comfortable run. As it’s Friday and I’m doing a 10 mile 10 pub walk tomorrow, I realised that I needed to do the three mile jog today as there was no chance I would be doing it tomorrow and on Sunday I’d have to do the 8.5 miles. Trouble is, I went to spin tonight so I wasn’t sure how I’d fit the run in as I couldn’t do it at lunch time. I hurried home from work, threw on my running gear, grabbed Ruby and strapped her lead to my waist and legged it out the door, leaving the two cats meowing away for their food. We just ran down to the school then along the trail towards the barn before cutting up through the ‘Pinetum’ and doubling back on ourselves. Luckily there was nobody around so I let Ruby off the lead and didn’t have to be slowed down by her constant sniffing as I just left her to it and let her catch up.
I got home with 15 minutes to spare before having to leave for spin so I quickly fed the rabble of pets and went on my way.
Spin was obscenely hard tonight! The bikes are all geared differently and I had always believed that bike number 1 was the hardest, followed by bike number 2. I was wrong. I went into my usual corner and noticed that the bike was labelled as number three, which is one I haven’t hard before, so I got on it. Dave then laughed and me and told me that one was ‘the killer’. I said ‘What harder than bike 1’ and he said ‘Oh yes!’. He was not lying. It was ridiculously hard. When we did the sprint intervals I was in such a low gear I felt like a fraud! Felt great at the end though as I felt like I had worked much harder than usual. I’m really loving this altitude spin lark and feel that it has brought my running on really well.
Total distance – 2.9 miles
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