Doug Anderson 5K race

Went better than expected. There were some notable performances by many members of the group. My 18:11 was a bit of a surprise since that was a 17 second improvement on the recent parkrun.

Beaten to the club MV45 Championship by Gary Finch; I tried to draw the finish out of him early but his reputation as a fast finisher was justified by his 1 second win. It was a double defeat for me since he won the race MV45 too. Still - next time maybe.

Race on Garmin

Previous
2013 - 18:54 (Club Champs MV45)

Pre Doug Anderson 5k Training

Coaching 3

Just me and four others tonight. 5 miles or so with 6 x 80m strides. Done at Bedford Park - DA5K venue.

Garmin here

First road bike ride

Tonight I took my first steps or pedals onto a road bike. O a loaned bike, and shoes we were soon off  around the country roads of north Bedfordshire.

For a start it seemed much easier than riding the MTB and obviously faster.

Such a shame that the Garmin seemed to drop satellite reception at 5 miles so I have no idea of the speed and split times.

Finished off with a 5k run in 21 mins @ 6:41 pace so although a short run it was at a reasonable pace.

Coaching 2

Second supervised coaching session.

This time a pre-determined 7 mile run with 6 x 2mins with 1 recovery. Did this a one complete set at 5k pace ( I think I said 10 - oops, thankfully one one picked up on it to embarrass me).

This was a bit of a softer session as most will be running the Club Champs Half-marathon on Sunday. 2 had raced the night before.

Planned the route on Mapmyrun.

Splits
1 - 5.36
2 - 5.44
3 - 5.39
4 - 5.45
5 - 6.01
6 - 5.38

June Roundup

Biggest June mileage for years.
No races - boo.

Bike sessions improving.

London Marathon 2015

Applied, accepted, paid for - Job done