Cool breeze and overcast skies greeted over 60 runners at 6.00 am this morning for the first official Sydney Striders Sunday training run for the New Year. I found it very hard to get up this morning. I was still tired from yesterdays run and did not get to sleep till after midnight. Saw A Curious Case of Benjamin Button - very disappointed. But lovely to catch up with Paul & Catherine over great Thai food at Pandanus at Cremorne before the movie.
This morning was to be a long slow distance run for me but ended up being a bit of a tempo run, following the long slow run from yesterday. Started off at what felt like an easy 6.05m/km pace for the first 5 km then increased pace to an average 5.35m/km for the next 4 km. This was followed by a long climb of a hill on Oxford Falls Rd.
This is the first time I have run up this hill – a rise of 150m over 3.5km, which I ran at an average pace of 6.30m/km. The sun was out nowand it was getting warmer and humid. The rest of the run I averaged at 5.20m/km, running the last 5km on my own. Very pleased with how strong I felt to the finish.
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