As suggested brought this forward to Saturday. Ran out towards Bexhill – into the wind! And not surprisingly struggled. That and adding in Little Galley Hill and Galley Hill early in the first effort meant that the first effort was slightly soul destroying as the pace wasn’t there, but I think effort was! Start of second effort was on way back on lower prom far side of Bexhill and suddenly realised that the prom was covered with shingle, so stopped watch and walked up steep path to road, before starting it again. Due to slower pace was worried about getting back in time for start of Parkrun, but ended up with a couple of minute rest before start. Third effort in Parkrun went well, and after dealing with wind earlier felt fairly strong on way back, generally overtaking others (26:10 Parkrun time). Then went pretty much straight into final mile of easy. Finished half marathon distance in under 2 hours, so ended up really happy with that!
(Please don’t feel you need a long response, most of the above is for me.)
It’s a really interesting point you make here though and one to take forward with you into races. That being how tough you’ve found that first 5k and then how you felt at the end. I’ve experienced that in races and the morale of the story is to keep going when it feels tough. If you give up that early you never know what might have been. And often things do get easier, as you experienced here. Great session Ben, love where you are at with HHM approaching
Coach Simon 🍊
