Sneaky Speedie

As I predicted I sleep like a log last night after the yoga session, I can definitely see myself doing it once a week on either a Saturday or Sunday, but it is too time consuming to do any more than that in a week. I am not sure about the theory behind the heat but it did seem to make me feel more comfortable getting into some of the poses, though when you were required to hold onto your feet or something it did get a bit slippery

And at this time of year I quite enjoyed spending time in a very hot room (I hate the cold), also heading out into the cool air afterwards was really invigorating.

Now for running……

I am up to walk 1 minute and run 15 minutes by 3 at the moment so it is getting tricky to find a long enough stretch of trail or gravel surface to run on near home. I ended up on the section of Dandenong Creek Trail between High Street Road and Burwood Road, it was almost enough. The run today ended up the same as Thursday, 8.3 Km with an average pace of 5:25. Though today I had someone running with me so the first 15 minutes were slower than I wanted to run, we then agreed to split off and do our own paces. I “raced” off to complete my session keeping it steady for most of the way but then, feeling good treating myself to a couple of faster Kms to close out the run, there was a 4:59 and a 5:02, it felt so damn good to cruise along at that pace and feel reasonably comfortable. OK, I am not really ready to sustain that pace but it was nice to know I could get close to my old tempo run pace without keeling over.

Guess what? I let the craving win, it’s apple pie and ice-cream for desert tonight

I’ll be going back to yoga tomorrow afternoon too, may as well get one more session out of my 7 day trial.