8 km + strides [Workout 33/64]

Officially in the 2nd half of my marathon training, and I have been hitting all my targets so far. Let's hope I can do a 4:30 in the Standard Chartered Marathon. The training is going to get tougher from here onwards.

I had wanted to run on Monday night, but I was feeling so exhausted when I came back from work on Monday that I took a shower and crawled into bed before 10 pm.

Today (Tuesday), I was feeling a bit better, but still not feeling the best. Nevertheless, I dragged myself out to run. I pushed myself a bit harder on the "easy portion" of my first 8 km run. Was supposed to go around 7 min/km, but I averaged less than 5:50 min/km for the first 8 km. This was followed by a series of strides. I had to do 6 strides this time but I was expecting to do only 5 strides, which was what the training program prescribed to me the last few times. I was totally "flat-tyre" by the time I had to do my 6th stride.

After the running workout, my top was totally drenched! I suspect it was due to the high humidity (it had rained in the afternoon). Going to run today again. Next workout is going to be a bit more siong: 1 mile slow, 5 miles fast, 1 mile slow. Fast will be 6:09 to 6:15 min/km.

A picture my wife took of me before I started running. Spiderman outfit!

Timing