Easy Thursday

Miguel stated that it was a rest day on Thursday - so rested we did.

The plan was to go and run for 45 minutes very easily around town. We set off to St Germain, as for the direction of the normal warm up run for the evening sessions. The usual warm-up takes just under 30 minutes to run 4.5km, so very easy. Since tonight's aim was to run for 45 minutes, we had to find a further 15 minute course to make up the difference.

John set out in front. This is quite ironic since John is usually quite close to the back in the races, yet here he was in training storming away at the front of the field. OK, so storming is an exageration, but John was having fun at the front finding the route and dictating the pace. We finished up by running a good route into St Germain, then out under the railway line to the Lycée International, down to the pony club and then back through the forest along the tarmac path. It took just over 50 minutes which made a few people moan, but I was happy with the relaxing run but also a little disappointed in that I felt I hadn't done enough.

When we got back to the track, I set off by myself running 400m circuits at ever increasing speed until I ran the last at about 15.5 km/h pace. Miguel had then decided that we would do some sprints up and down the pitch 10 times. I was at the front and determined to stay there so what was supposed to be an easy session turned into quite a gruelling work-out by the end.

Great session with about 12 km all up.