This coming Monday marks the start of the next training group, this time focused on the 5k. With 34 people in the group it will be a lot of work keeping track of results and setting targets for everyone, but with some very fast people within the group it will provide a lot of motivation for everyone to work hard. Along with this change in training stimulus, taking out the really fast paced work and replacing it with a lot of 5k paced interval work, I want to really work on my base endurance during the next 3 months. I’d quite like to drop a few kgs of body fat at the same time, but that will come if I maintain the training volume I intend to.
So today was the first real session since the Crash B’s last weekend. Basically I’ve just been too tired to do anything meaningful until now. So I started off with some solid endurance work at a fairly low intensity.
3 x 20mins / 2min rest:
- 5047m / 1:58.8 / 20
- 5090m / 1:57.8 / 20
- 5132m / 1:56.9 / 20
Totals: 15270m / 1:57.8 / 20
Tomorrow it is time for my one and only attempt at this month’s C2 challenge, the 2500m. I am not going to be a medal contender in the challenge series this year, so I don’t intend to do this 100% flat out, but it will be completed whatever as I don’t intend to do it twice. No particular targets, I will just see how I feel when I warm up tomorrow.
