I love the Saturday session with the squad, and this is probably my favourite session on the four week cycle. Similar to last week, our traditional 1km loop was slightly compromised, making it further than 1000m. A good turnout today with Harry Summers and Matt Hudson setting the pace out front, and Ben St. Lawrence on the side lines post surgery. The key to this session is consistency (as I have found out the hard way) - you sort of need to go in with mindset of making it somewhat progressive. The fourth rep well and truly ensures that you cannot take each rep at goal 5km pace! (3 reps would even be pushing it). Quite wet and heavy underfoot today thanks to an overnight dew. Was happy with the reps today, most consistent I have been in this session with 6:29, 6:24, 6:24 and 6:28. Again, slightly over 2km (how far depends on who's GPS you want to believe), but effort wise it was spot on - and the gap between myself and Matt & Harry was no greater than usual. Joined the two of them along with Hamish & Damien for a cooldown, 17km all up.
8km easy this afternoon, 4:37 min/km pace averaging 120 beats per minute.
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