Training week (Mar 13th - Mar 19th)

Saturday 13th March - Rest Day

Sunday 14th March - 27km Run
I aimed to to do 25k's, but I slightly misjudged how far from home I was. I went out early, initially it was a bit cold and overcast, an hour and a half later the sun was blazing down and I was searching for shade wherever I could find. It was a good comfortable paced run, but did remind me I'll have to be out running earlier and earlier in the next few weeks to avoid the heat.
27km 4:45min/km 2:09:05

Monday 15th March - 1,000m Swim
I'm toying with the idea of some day doing a triathlon, but the element that puts me off is definitely the swim. I can swim, just not well. Anyway, I tried to speed up my weekly swim this week. I guess I was about 1 minute quicker than normal, so not too bad, but I know my freestyle is really shabby, if I do try triathlon it will only be after improving it alot.
1,000m 25:56

Tuesday 16th March - Rest Day

Wednesday 17th March - Rest Day

Thursday 18th March - 12km Run & 1hr Football
Again no time on Wednesday to make it out for a run, so postponed until Thursday morning. I didn't push very hard, so was surprised when got home to see it was under 4:20min/km pace.

Despite the morning run still played football, I was told they wouldn't have enough players otherwise which persuaded me to put off the studying. Having fewer players than normal meant I was running around like a madman, but it was a good fun, more space to run with the ball so more opportunity to score a Maradona-esque goal running through the whole team (of 5!). I scored two, but the Maradona-esque goal will have to wait, had a good chance just had the keeper to beat but knocked a foot wide of the far post, I was cursing good and proper, hope nobody understood me.
12km 4:18min/km 51:42

Friday 19th March - 6.2km Run
This was a public holiday, for Father's Day, so the track was shut. Instead I did a 6km lap that I used to do regularly when I was building up my fitness after injury last year. I was pushing my pace quite hard and easily beat my fastest time over the same lap, about half a minute quicker than I'd managed before. Bodes well for attempting to run a sub-40min 10k later in the year.
6.2km 3:47min/km 23:23