The Road to Richmond

[marathondan]

A couple more rain-soaked late night sessions to report. Turns out that being at home with the kids, the days are just as busy as being at work. But the evenings are free, so I've been out around the field for some nostalgic high effort laps after dark. My fondest memories of past sessions here are in the rain, so the running gods have obliged on both occasions, throwing down delightful summer bucketfuls till my t-shirt is clinging wet.

Interval session on Thursday, 90 sec sprint / 90 sec jog. To avoid having to keep lighting up my Garmin, I counted steps to time the sprints. Turns out 120 (double) steps takes me 90 sec, meaning my natural cadence of 160 hasn't changed. Then 9 miles tempo last night. These are the runs where I really feel progress in being made - when I'm running a hard session further than I could run an easy session a few months ago. I say hard - my times are not what they once were, and I'm sure I could have gone harder in both outings. But all grist to the mill.

Backpack is packed, and mp3 player loaded, for 18 miler tomorrow morning.