This morning after 2 days rest, I was pretty excited (apart from the morning grogginess) to get up and go on my last run of Week 8 today, as well as trying out my new Aftershokz Titanium (which if you are looking at these, definitely get them - they are brilliant!) and my new running belt.
I head on my way out, tracking my walking first, and 1 minute into my run realised I was still tracking my walking rather than running on my Apple Watch, so safe to say that was a bit of a Homer Simpson D'OH! moment, but this actually made me force myself to ignore my Apple Watch completely, because the time wouldn't be accurate, and just focus on the run for what it is. I was really inspired by my last easy run, so I wanted to try and see if I could do it again, but as it was my final run of W8, I wanted to see if I could go a bit faster at the end without worrying what the pace was.
I found that my pace on the first KM after taking a quick peek at 1KM was 9'36" so decided I could speed it up a little, especially as my breathing wasn’t struggling or anything, but didn't want to look at it again after that and just focus on my music and breathing, and maybe that might have been a good thing, because KM 2 was 9'13" and KM 3 was a whopping 8'32" which I knew I was fast, as I was really pushing myself the last few minutes, just to see what I could do! I know I won't be at that pace anytime soon when I'm running normally, and I'm truly not worried about that as I like to just be able to run to enjoy it rather than focusing on PBS most of the time, but it was brilliant to see that I could do that without feeling that pressure of looking at my pace and distance constantly.
The view today was absolutely beautiful - and finally remembered to take a picture so here it is!
W8r3 - ditch the watch
W8R3+1: Couch to 5k and the Blustery Day
Consolidation 5 - 5K - Yesss!
A balmy evening final run
W8R3
