I thought today's session (which I had originally planned to do yesterday) was an interval one. It wasn't, which came as something of a relief after my rather gallumphing performance on Tuesday's Fartlek. The relief soon faded when I realised it was actually a hill session. Hills and I do not get on. But there are some fairly sharp, if quite short, inclines on the Brighton marathon course. As well as some very slight but interminably long ones. So I know this kind of training is pretty essential. An off I trolled at stupid o'clock to tackle some of the ups and downs near my home.
I actually failed spectacularly on the first uphill section, walking part of it. The top end of Chalky Road is ridiculously steep and hard to deal with after only about two minutes of warm-up running - on a footpath that is itself one of the long, gradually upwards bits. It's actually quite similar in incline and length to the horrid bit of the Brighton marathon course in Ovingdean, which I think they may actually have dropped in this year's course change. But I can't be bothered researching, so won't actually find out until I do the thing in April.
After that, it all went quite well. Not blisteringly fast, natch, but I did manage the return leg all the way up Foredown Drive (the other major slope I tackled) without stopping. As ever, the hilliness contributed to higher than usual levels of bosom ache.
TOMORROW is the interval session, with something else on Saturday and the 10 miles on Sunday. A 5 run week! Eeek.
Updated Training Plan
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