Catching up

Saturday May 30 -  At 8 p.m. as I said if  I felt Good I woul throw a tempo run. Did not feel my best, but did not feel bad so I opted for the tempo. As opposed to our past tempo, that day was very warm. I did 12 mins warm up, then did some Dynamic stretching. In the second lap of my warm up I always throw 5 x 50m strides to loosen up. I could beat last weeks time for a couple of seconds, but felt way more tired and the last 500m I had to dig Deep mentally. Splits per lap were 4:18,4:27,4:19,4:25,4:24 and then 2:20s more to stop the watch at 24:19 or something like that. Honestly that is a 24:15-24:20 for the 5k.Right in that ball park. Despite improving my time from 9 days ago, I felt more tired, last time I felt somewhat fresh. However, as I have said that Saturday was hot. 12 mins warm down (2+ laps).  9+ laps total. All right day. I did that in the Blasco park of course.

Sunday May 31 -  Went in the evening to the Blasco, and the plan was to do 8 laps easy. I felt so Good that after my 8 laps in 43:09, I decided to do the bigger lap that got me to the Cabanyal station and back, took me 13:28. I stopped the watch in 56:49. Around 9.3k total.

Monday June 1st - After work at 8 p.m. I felt really tired that Monday, the total opposite of previous day. I threw 6 strides from laps 6-8, but felt heavy on the strides, tired. Did the 8 laps in 42:50, the 2 laps of strides helped a ton bring the pace down ( those 2 laps were in 4:50,4:49).

Tuesday June 2 - After work again at 8 p.m. still felt tired, but managed to do 8 laps (7.2k) in 43:12. Finished feeling Good though.

Wednesday June 3rd -  I did not want to run easy again, so I opted for a light fartlek workout to mix things up and accelerate my return to fitness. I would do 5-7 reps of 1 mins fast and 1 mins slow. I finally did 7 repeats. I warmed up 13 mins total incorporating 5 x 50m strides. Laps including recovery were fast, 3 laps were in 4:14, 8:32 (4:18), 12:54 (4:22). Then kept running till complete the 13 mins. Did 7 repeats and was surprised because when I was in shape I crossed the 3 laps in around 13:15, but of course, I was doing 13-14 repeats, so the doublé and feeling much better that the end. That Wednesday I was really huffing and puffing after the 3rd repeat, so in workouts is that you realice that you are out of shape.

Thursday - After work did 8 laps pretty easy to recover, I was really tired and I could only muster 44:13 for 8 laps, which was fast previous qurantine as I was always tired.

Friday -  I took the off from running, but I went to the park to walk and to see my brother do his run. I did 16000 steps for the day as I go to work and come from work walking (5.5k total) everyday.

Saturday - I ran at 08:45 a.m. since in the evening we had some visitants and we have some beers and then a Kebab, I went to bed yesterday full and basically I did do the digestión at night so I woke up today ( Sunday) full and I knew that the run would not be optimal. I did 8 laps in the Blasco park and the park was so peacefully that I could let my mind wander. I did 44:42. I only look at the watch in the first lap in 5:43 and then did not look again until the end 44:42. 1 lap waking afterwards.

Sunday -  Today I ran again at 08:45 a.m., as I said my stomach did not feel well, but I could take care of things pre run. However, in the run felt sluggish and did not feel Good, but luckily at the end I felt pretty Good. The plan was to run 60 mins and the last 20 mins as progression. I did this in the Blasco park and registered all the laps in my watch. I started way slower tan I wanted, but thats what I had it today. I started at 5:48 the first lap and it felt like 5:20 which was the pla, right there I knew that it was going to be a rough day. Was not so bad though. Then gradually worked my way to 5:20 laps at the 40 mins park and then started my 20 mins progression, last laps after the progressions were 5:01,5:00, the first lap I started the progression after 70 seconds of starting that lap, so I really expected that time. However the second lap was enteraly at progression effort so I was really surprised to have run that slow after " moving" my legs. Then I accelerated on purpose, of course remaining in the control zone. Next couple of laps were in 4:46 and 4:39, right where I wanted to be, the last couple of laps really helped to average the 4:50 per lap that I wanted in the portion part. I had 58:22 in the 11th lap which was the 10k, then ran basically at the same effort or a tad faster until the 60 mins mark. Felt Good at the end, but today is one of those days that I realice of the importance of Good nutrition, I think I would have done a lot better if I would have eaten my normal dinner of tuna, eggs spinach, cheese, tomatoes sándwiches. Than to eat potatoe ships, kebab and beer. I definetly feel those in my stomach. However, I could really get my run in and the effort was there. So happy about that. Around 10.3k total for the day. Did around half a lap of walking afterwards. Wore sunglasses today, I bought them yesterday, because these days the sun is hitting hard.

6 runs for the week, right where I want to be. This evening I Will go to the park to do some walking.Again watching my brother run and to look at the scenary, is not that easy to be at home all day.