Very much the routine we are looking to hit. If doing efforts with your club, that’s fine. If need be we can always do a little extra on Thursday if the session is lighter than we’d like. But this a really good routine as pretty much everything you do now will be with other runners, which is brilliant. Hopefully where I can then really help is with the feedback and get you believing in yourself and understanding that you are a strong runner. After all, the average 5k time for women is 38 minutes. So you’re already ahead of that and I have a sneaky feeling that in the future you’re going to be 10 mins ahead of that average!!
Coach Simon๐
Pace is the best thing to focus on here. You should be at the lower end or even under your 3k target here. A great chance to get some speed in the legs.
The biggest mistake we can make with these recovery runs is running too fast. This will mean when our harder sessions come round we are still fatigued and not able to put enough effort in to make the necessary gains.
parkrun is the best!!! Every Saturday at 9am. A great opportunity to push our effort levels and run alongside other people. Make sure you get there nice and early for your WU & Strides. I normally aim for 8:15 to give myself plenty of time.