Shorter with more pace

After my 9.5mile run the other weekend I decided upon a week of shorter runs with more pace. Thus my last two runs have been the same 5km route, first as intervals of 1/4mile on/off and then just as hard as I could maintain and finish.

The first, much like the one a week before but significantly faster - about 32minutes compared to almost 36 - I can't be too precise about my time as my Garmin forerunner ran out of battery charge after the first interval! (again my fault!!), so I resorted to the time on my mobile phone which was given only in minutes and was thus anywhere between 31 and 33minutes.

The second, watch fully charged and set to beep at me if I ran slower than 10:15 minute mile pace, was completed in 30mins33seconds - my fastest 5K. Annoyed that I couldn't break the 30min barrier but my overall splits were sub-10 minute miling which is great.

I'm also pleased that I was able to build up my pace after the first mile, running my last half mile significantly faster than my second. You can also see this in the pace v average plot below:

Overal a good run, that improved as I went (I started off feeling that running that evening was a mistake, and finished pleased that I had made the effort).

But today my legs hurt almost as much as they did after 9.5miles!