April 5th - track session

Another glorious sunny and warm day. Spent most of it indoors tying up loose ends and getting a few last-minutes orders out before the holiday. Every time I thought I could go and enjoy the sun, something else cropped up.
Drove to Gala for a track session, arrived way too early and killed half an hour snoozing gently in the car and listening to PM. Rudely woken by some scallywag junior squirting me with a water pistol through the open window!
Session prescribed was 12 x 400m off a 2:45 turn-around (i.e. start each 400m 2 mins 45 secs after the previous one, so the faster you run the more recovery you get). Felt like I was running in soft sand, and just couldn't seem to get the legs turning over properly. A couple of strides off the pace on most of them, with an unusually speedy Graeme Murdoch dragging me along. A cruel novelty was that Laura Goodson and Alice Haining, two of the best juniors in the country were drafted in on occasional reps, fully recovered from their last effort, to humiliate us!

Times were:
73, 71, 70, 70, 71, 71, 73, 73, 72, 72, 73, 72.

Rib much improved, and no repeat of last week's post-session sieze-up.