Monday night is 10K night

Did 10K after work. Preparation was better as I had a nice healthy salad when I met Team Kennedy Manager for lunch. This was followed by an afternoon treat of fruit salad and fruit smoothie in the office. When I got home I had an expresso, 750ml Isotonic drink and a paracetamol chaser just 15 minutes before I went out.

I wasn't as tight or unco-ordinated as yesterday and right from the start my pace was 4:30's and 4:20's....per km My running felt more balanced and although I was puffing up the hill at 5K around the 5:40's per km I didn't feel it was getting ragged at any point. I finished in 46:55 which is just over 2 minutes faster than last night. I'm not yet up to challenging my personal best of 45:01 for 10K but I'm feeling better. I was tired when finished but not wiped out completely.

I'm still staggered by yesterday's athletics on TV. Its only when you run yourself do you see the enormous gap between professional athletes and the man in the street. Women's marathon in Berlin had them running at a 5K pace of 17 minutes around the 32km mark, so with 12km to go in the marathon they were running 5K in 17 minutes. I don't think I could run a single 5K in 20 minutes never mind running multiple 5K's at 17 minutes pacing.....The mens 10K final was won in just a little over 15 minutes and it was a slow race.