The Horrie and Belinda Show

17/10/05

We were greeted by a wet Monday morning. Not exactly the motivator you need when you are going to tackle a hill rep session. We still managed to drag ourselves out, the lunatics we are. We began with a 2km warmup before tackling 10 hill reps which were a bit slower than last week before heading home with a 2km warmdown. I thought it was great that Belinda finished the session as it would have been easy to roll over and go back to sleep once she heard the rain.

18/10/05

We ran our 10.5km loop at 6 minute pace. During the months we have been doing this run we have managed anywhere between 60 and 70 minutes. I am asking Belinda to be disciplined and run at a nice steady pace which is not too slow or too fast. We held the pace consistently all the way through which is what I was hoping for.

19/10/05

I decided to reintroduce Belinda to intervals after an 8 month break. As her leg is feeling a lot better and the niggles are slowly disippating, she is back running 3 days in a row. I told her that she might as well make hay while the sun shines and take advantage of being injury free by training hard.

We headed out for 6X500m intervals with a minute standing recovery. After going out too hard in the first and blowing up, Belinda managed to finish the 6 strongly at an average of 2:37 per rep, which gave her average speed of 5:14/km which is what I thought she was capable of.