What is it with round numbers anyway? Why do we obsess over these completely arbitrary goals or targets? As regular readers of this column will know, missing said target by a few seconds is, anyway, very much the way we roll in my house. This weekend it was the turn of my 8 year old, who smashed her junior parkrun PB but just missed out on her first ever sub-10 minutes for the 2k course (10min 04sec!). Still enormously pleased, of course, and rewarded with crazy golf - the cool down of champions. Now to knock off another five seconds ...
My own weekend consisted of my club track session on Saturday morning: 12 reps of 300m and 100m, with a short recovery. Ouch. My legs are not used to that sort of speed! However, it’s something even us long distance plodders should work more on, according to Steve Cram - and more to the point, can all benefit from, whatever the distance we race.
Then Sunday’s junior parkrun was followed by an easy hour or so: easy, because when you read this I will be on my way to have Vo2 max and lactate threshold tests at St Mary’s University. I am, to be honest, a bit scared. The test instructions include no caffeine for three hours beforehand (the horror!) and I am truly rubbish at treadmill running. Further report to follow, assuming I don’t manage one of those epic treadmill fails and appear in a youtube compilation first ...
Over to you. Share your own weekend’s exploits, whether it was working on rehab in the pool, racing around a parkrun or bagging a big PB. Crazy golf PBs are also acceptable.
