Yesterday, after a day of meetings and before an evening meal out hosted by one of the younger men in the congregation, I decided to run my last run before trialling my version of Sunday's "Nile Ten Mile". While the real race is a flat course I will have a few inclines in mine along Devonport's Bike Track. I know it will be slower than last year's time and even more slower than my best time trial over 10 miles but I accept that I have been so busy with funerals, etc that I haven't put in the miles.
Anyway, back to yesterday. I thought I would do an easy 8k along the bike track but just after I started realised that I needed to shorten the distance so as to get back in time for our night out. So I decided to cut it down to 6k and endeavoured to run at around 6 min/k. All went well for the first 2k and was just a couple of seconds faster than planned, but then I began to get a bit faster, especially the return 3k so that I ended up 20 secs faster than I had planned. If I do that on the weekend I think I will be in trouble before I get very far into my trial over the distance.
If I do the distance on Saturday the humidity is expected to be in the low 80s (as it was yesterday) but on Monday it will be in the low 60s, which would make it more pleasant. However, I have meetings in Launceston on Monday and an evening meeting back home. Decisions, decisions!
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