sweatin' up a storm

well this morning was my first sweat session in over a week. and MAN did it hurt.

However, obviously my down week has served me well because honestly I even surprised myself. On the program was a 2k loop, 5 mins recovery and then 1k.

Did a warm up of 3.5k and then got into it. Then I decided to give the 2k everything and as sparkie would say - crash or crash through. I thought that something was up when I was still pretty close to Bernie G at the 1k point, and yes, that k was 4.48. (what the???). I figured I was going to crash then and that 2nd k was agony!!! But I did it in 4.55 for 2k in 9.43!! How cool is that????

The next 1k loop was like dragging two lumps of lead around the oval. Still I was pleased to keep it under 5.00 pace - 4.58 to be precise :)

2.2k cool down for 8.7k. I suppose a week off training does make you fresh after all! maybe i should rethink the training plan to incorporate more doing nothing...