Viel besser, heute Abend

Viel besser, heute Abend by leecolgate at Garmin Connect - Details

I've found this week really tiring, for some reason, so did not manage this morning's run before work.  Fortuitously, however, it turned out to be an 'early finish Friday'.  So I got home at a fairly reasonable hour and managed to motivate myself to do the run before dinner.  This was helped by the increasing loomingness of the event, which is now only 3 weeks away.

I was a bit disappointed with Tuesday's 30 minuter and determined to do better this evening.  My GPS has had a huge problem recently being any kind of accurate until at least 10 minutes into each session, so I determinedly ignored all the 'Speed Up' bleeping and 'Slow Down' blooping until then, to find I was pretty much on schedule with 8:56 per mile.

So I turned round pretty much exactly where I expected to be after 15 minutes and headed back.  I confess to shouting at my wrist in an alarming manner just outside a pub when the gadgetry suggested I was doing 9:30 per mile (apologies to anyone who swallowed their  cigarette or ended up wearing their drink) because I simply wasn't.  And within 100 yards all was again well with the world as, without speeding up at all, I was suddenly doing 8:56.

I actually improved on this and ended up averaging 8:52 over the whole session, which was very nice and much better than last time.

A long weekend ahead, but one which will include a bit of work for me.  Colin's working Bank Holiday Monday so this is actually no great hardship.  It's also largely going to be in German, which is rather exciting, although my German speaking friends may expect to be plagued by requests for advice on how some of our very colourful English colloquialisms are best expressed in their native tongue.  Starter for 10: 'Dirty weekend'.  Any takers?

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