Sunburnt, hot, and first tempo session of the plan!

I’ve been off of work this week (on holiday), so spent yesterday lounging by the outside pool at the gym. I wasn’t there for long and I did put on some sun tan lotion, but obviously not enough! I felt very light headed last night and woke up this morning with some sore bits!

So, I was in two minds as to whether or not go for the scheduled run this morning. But as it was due to be the first tempo run of the 11 week plan, I thought it wouldn’t be the best of starts if I didn’t bother.

The first mile to warm up was due to be run at 9:24 pace, but as always I found it difficult to run that slow to start with - so ended up running the first mile in 8:58.

The next 3 miles were to be run at 7:54… which was tough going. However, averaging things out I managed 7:59 - which I don’t think is too bad at all. The actual running felt OK, but every time the clouds disappeared and the sun came out it was just very very hot and hard going.

I was supposed to warm down wit a mile at 9:24 again, but due to the route I planned coming right past my house after 4.5 miles, I thought I would call it a day!

I went for a swim this afternoon too to work on the front crawl drills I got yesterday at my swimming lesson… but that’s a-whole-nother post!