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First of all, I wish to thank everyone (and there were more than I thought) for all their well wishes, congratulations and the like. The family is now all home and doing well.

Naturally training went out the window over the last few days because I had more important priorities. I only put in one run, which was a Maf Test. The pace was slower than last time but there are likely to be a number of reasons for this, including:
  • Fatigue from lack of sleep
  • Stiff and tired legs from no exercise
  • First relatively hot day (26 degrees)
  • Thoughts were on other topics and raise HR
  • Test 2, was artificially high and reflected too much improvement

I'm expecting this test to be a slight anomaly, but will have to check how the trend goes over the next couple of months.




dateHRpace
27/08/081495:34/km
12/09/081495:10/km
1/10/081495:28/km

Comments

  1. Tea4 October 2008 at 05:22

    You are likely to have many more "lack of sleep" days ahead of you. As long as you take it all with a grain of salt (as you have been doing), you'll hit that 5:10 speed again quickly.

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  2. Ewen4 October 2008 at 11:04

    Not much you can do about 'lack of sleep' coming up.

    Tiredness, heat and less training probably all contributed. The next few tests will be interesting.

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