I could have had a baby!

I took another step on the road to recovery this morning but before I tell you about that let me just fill you in on how the running has been going since we last met. Have been slowly upping the mileage and did 6.7 miles with the Sospans on a beautiful sunny morning on Sunday. Have been trying to keep below 70% WHR which has been going ok, averaging about 9.30mm pace. The good thing about going with club though is that I slowly start off and then attach myself to the front runners so the last two Sundays have been progressive runs starting off at around 10.00mm pace but slowly building up so I have been finishing averaging 9mm pace. Has given me a bit of confidence back :-) Anyway back to this morning, well I decided a few days ago that I would do an interval session of 4 x 400m today before giving parkrun a good bash on Saturday to see where I am and what I can aim for in John Hartson 10k in 4 weeks time. A spanner in the works immediately though when I got to the school at the bottom of the hill to find it locked so I couldn't use the track. I know it is half term but is usually open by that time, ho hum. Decided then to go to a long(ish) straight and very quiet road I know about a mile further on. Turns out the road was 241 metres long but I still only did 4 intervals. The first one was at 4.59mm pace, didn't even know I could run that fast, nearly killed me, the final 3 all at 5.40mm pace. I was shagged right out. Now I knew that I had not done much like this for a while as I did lots of long slow miles in build up to the challenge but just been back through the training log and turns out the start of August was my last 'speed' session. Over 9 months ago, like I said I could have had a baby in that time. At least I have a good base. So not overly excited or disappointed, glad to have done it and llike I said will see where Saturday takes me, got half a plan in mind but am not sharing it yet. And to think I was blaming the pregnant look on too many pies.....