Week 9 - Very Annoying! (Part 2) - Day 59 of 112

Before I start I am even more annoyed than I was 5 minutes ago as I have just deleted the first paragraph of the blog. Bloody keyboard!

Not happy!

I said in my last post that I did not feel whacked at the end of the run. Well, I must have been lying because I woke up this morning stiff as a board. Needed to make the run this morning as I am on Brownie duty this evening so the thought of a 10 miler at 7.30 pace did not fill me with a great deal of happiness. In addition the charger on the Garmin reversed itself leaving no juice whatsoever in the machine. I had to rely on the old faithful Ironman Timex to keep the times. Rather annoyingly this means no HR data and skewed mile times. Bloody charger!

It was a tough outing both physically and mentally. I had to stop before I had reached Great Western Road to adjust my trainer and then could not get the Timex splits to work. Now I know that I am not a techno geek but surely I should be able to work out how to get the Timex to calculate splits even if it was 6am! I must have wasted at least a couple of minutes fannying about with the watch. In the end I gave up and started on the 10 miler. The numbers completely screwed - Bloody Timex!

Miraculously the Timex managed to correct itself and the splits other that the first one were able to be calculated. Difficult to know at what pace I was running but did feel that I was putting in an effort that befitted a 7.30 pace. Not sure if the Timex thought that though. Headwind on the way out. Passed the Ice Maiden and decided to give here some of her own medicine and bolted passed her without any acknowledgement at all. Bloody Ice Maiden!

By the end I was out of it. Nothing left. Legs like lead. A shuffle was as good as it got. The achilles was ok throughout and it was only when I stopped that there was any sort of pain to speak of. Since completing the run I feel like I did after the marathon - light headed and really struggling with my energy levels. I wolfed down some much needed breakfast of two boiled eggs, an enormous bowl of porridge and a couple of rounds of toast. Bloody good effort!

Numbers - 10 miles ish - 1.19.15 hrs ish

Splits - 10.22 - 8.20 - 7.21 - 7.26 - 7.25 - 7.45 - 7.47 - 7.07 - 7.58 - 7.41