How was your weekend running?

What is it with round numbers anyway? Why do we obsess over these completely arbitrary goals or targets? As regular readers of this column will know, missing said target by a few seconds is, anyway, very much the way we roll in my house. This weekend it was the turn of my 8 year old, who smashed her junior parkrun PB but just missed out on her first ever sub-10 minutes for the 2k course (10min 04sec!). Still enormously pleased, of course, and rewarded with crazy golf – the cool down of champions. Now to knock off another five seconds …

My own weekend consisted of my club track session on Saturday morning: 12 reps of 300m and 100m, with a short recovery. Ouch. My legs are not used to that sort of speed! However, it’s something even us long distance plodders should work more on, according to Steve Cram – and more to the point, can all benefit from, whatever the distance we race.

Then Sunday’s junior parkrun was followed by an easy hour or so: easy, because when you read this I will be on my way to have Vo2 max and lactate threshold tests at St Mary’s University. I am, to be honest, a bit scared. The test instructions include no caffeine for three hours beforehand (the horror!) and I am truly rubbish at treadmill running. Further report to follow, assuming I don’t manage one of those epic treadmill fails and appear in a youtube compilation first …

Over to you. Share your own weekend’s exploits, whether it was working on rehab in the pool, racing around a parkrun or bagging a big PB. Crazy golf PBs are also acceptable.

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