29/11/15 – Knit one, Purl one…

A fresh approach on this morning’s 10K, in effort to try and get some improvement into my time. Employing a ‘fast lamp-post/slow lamp-post’ tactic for the long gradual pull upwards in the 2 to 4k section, I managed to get in under 1:06 for the first time since last March.

This tactic is based on the Fartlek principle of training, that I’d been reading about recently, although I would be embarrassed to give what I was doing such an official title.

The time wasn’t without some protest from my hamstrings though, so I’ve been investigating some warm-up and warm-down exercises, specifically for them. All the ones I’ve found seem to require a resting your leg along a steeplechase hurdle or similar at waist height – not the easiest thing to find locally! However, it turns out the BT telephone exchange box outside our house, is just the right height.

The exercise bloody hurts though! Ah well, win some, lose some…