5k disaster! (But a better Sunday.)

I worked out a 5k route from my house which is pretty much a 1 mile loop that I do three times then a bit added on the end to make it up to 5k.

I got up on Saturday morning to give it a go. I did one loop as a warm up before having a crack a the whole thing. I'll say at the outset that it was very windy but there's no hiding the fact that the time was very disappointing. I felt rubbish all the way through and felt unable to run any faster than I did as I felt that any extra speed would result in me having to stop. Anyway, I finally finished at 20 mins 54 seconds. I'd run 10k in less than 40 minutes so to run a 5k at an average speed that would translate to a 10k of just under 42 minutes is very disappointing.

I'm going to try again in an evening to see if I can put this bad time down to the wind and "morning effect". Then I'll just have to work on running in the mornings (especially as the race is in the morning!).

Yesterday was much better. I went skiing in the afternoon and although I fell on the first go down the slope and clattered onto my backside ("Gluteus to the Maximus - that hurt!") it was good fun. Tiring on the legs though.

In the evening I played two football matches. I was able to to keep sprinting around the pitch right up to the end of the second game which was great as I normally find 1hr of football hard enough - let alone 2 hours with skiing as a starter. Which, in turn, makes the 5k time even more disappointing!

Anyway, today I'm suffering. I'm bruised from skiing, have a swolen ankle from football (twisted my ankle) and various bumps and grazes (though amazingly I don't have one on my head from where my forehead was used as a brake on one of my many falls playing football).

I'm having a rest tonight.