Right on Time

6.7km loop in 27:45 (minus at least 15 secs for pedestrian crossings, etc, etc, etc,) - so I'm definitely there in terms of speed even though I felt far from it in sections I tell you.

Someday very soon I'll hit sub 27 for this route.

Happy enough, felt decent throughout except for the last 10 or so minutes where I tightened up as usual.

splits were good 2:56, 7:05, 12:02 at joyces lights, 13:2o at turn, then 19:02 at small roundabout, & 25:01 coming down incline towards pharmacy.

was stretching this morning & for whatever reason I was twisting my back & I got a jolt of discomfort up my back & then my chest tightened & it's been that way all day so much so that taking a full breath of air actually hurts - it's happened before it's just really strange...

In the last 10 mins basically from joyces onwards I just couldn't seem to inject any pace into it at all. coming down the final bends too along lower salthill I couldn't even break out any sort of a kick at all - I was totally flat & just jogged in for my borderline pb for the route...

I am getting stronger all the time but I need more training to really see further improvements that's for sure... my pace on these shorter runs is the same as last summer (May) so no improvements but am keeping my fitness up - nothing wrong with that necessarily.

I'm currently hobbling along at 6:40 pace which is Ok but 6:26 for sub 20 5km (which I know I can do currently, if I had to - at a race or whatever) is always the target really. I'm fit enough to do that but I need to improve & I will in 2017.

I was going to do a 10km last night but lost motivation to go out - despite me walking to terryland as usual in preparation for the run etc. I nearly lost motivation to go out tonight too, but thatnkfully I decided to head out after going for a walk cemented my decision in this regard.

This is a sure sign I need to run a few races/with people to keep the desire there - otherwise I'll slip back into using running for fitness only purposes - a dangerous prospect. It'll never happen though as, thankfully, I'm too competitive (with myself) & I couldn't live with myself for being half arsed about the sport. It'd be gnawing at me to put things right. so thankfully I'll never regress like I fear - I'd take a week off (like I've done before) & then seriously regretted it as the first mile was hell. Thankfully I've learnt the lesson to stay fit by running at least twice a week, & that's the bare minimum.

Looking forward to Tuam 8km  (taking a half day off work for this). Can't do the 5km run on sunday due to me working as usual.