I'm still not entirely sure what a 'pace' run is...Mr Taffi says it helps you increase your baseline running pace through short bursts of higher pace running. He also went on to describe how you do this - either increased pace for set distances (say 500m), set times (5mins) or increasing your pace to reach a higher heartrate and then maintaining for a period.
Anyhow, I settled for a very unscientific 'push on the legs' for an unmeasured distance/time.
Felt good.
I decided that my planned 4mile run, after scoping it out in the car earlier on Wednesday, was a little too isolated just after the 2nd mile point for a nighttime run. So I decided to run the first 2 miles, turn around, and run the same in reverse. Benefit. - all uphills become downhills, and vice versa. Also very good way of comparing times for what must be precisely equal distances. In reality I misread the two mile marker and ended up with 2 middle 'miles' of 0.8miles each, so my overall run became 3.6miles, but I felt really good, kept a steady pace without slowing for the last mile, didn't feel wrecked after it, and actually got a stitch in my right side not the usual left (is this progress?)
Thursday was something approximating the run I did the previous Thursday ending at the chippy - which I did again (habit...bad!) - just a shade further as I ran from a different starting point - the Polling station.
After placing my vote in the Referendum for increased law-making powers in the Welsh assembly, I set off on my 'easy' run - another really good run, and my pace was faster too.
I feel that I am starting to get somewhere now. I really do have the bug.
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