Thursday - 3 x 800m, 3 x 400m (4:00 cycle)

Back to reality today - this was tough! Met Ben at Graham Reserve at 6:15am after a 5km warm-up. The plan was just to try and stay with him for as long as possible. Managed it for the first rep, but was red-lining. From then on in, I was simply in survival mode. Luckily, Ben reported that he too was spent after the third rep - although he was running strong. Just grit my teeth and simply went through the motions. It's amazing how going the extra few percent harder than Thursday completely destroyed me today. Oh well, got to start somewhere I guess. A very light and easy 6km cool-down for just over 15km all up. Tomorrow's rest day couldn't come soon enough!