Tuesday May 5

It's back to JK's intervals session today. Trish and I met at 5.15pm to do our 20 minute warm up as per Coach Simon's instructions. With just over 20 minutes, plus the knee highs and butt kicks that are part of the session we got in a good 25 minutes or more of warm up, which is great. The session on the surface seemed like an easier one - a whistle session. It consisted of a 2 minute, 1 minute jog recovery, 2 x 1 minute with 30 second jog recovery and 2 x 30 second with 30 second recovery, then a rest before doing the same again another two times. It actually was a much tougher session than I anticipated and harder than last week's pyramid. But it's a great endurance session since you're running non-stop for 7 1/2 minutes. Afterwards, we cooled down for about 8 minutes. We are supposed to do a 20 minute cool down but as it's pitch black and we'd be battling in the dark by ourselves it's just not practical, so we'll have to find another way to get those extra minutes in - perhaps a slightly longer run Wednesday morning