5k PR and Weekend Base Ride
Friday was supposedly a rest day for me but since the parents are in town and they wanted to do a ECP slow walk, I thought I just joined them for a while.....while I do a short 5km. I've always wanted to better my 5km speed/time but haven't the chance to do so during the past many weeks due to 'marathon commitments'. I can't say if I'm fully recovered or anything but its sure worth a shot and let's face it : Its 'only' 5km! Started strongly and maintained below 5:00 min/km pace.....I guess I was a bit overzealous and the first 2km was about 4:40min/km. This took me out pretty good and the next 3km pace was to suffer. Fortunately on the average, pace was 4:58min/km and hence got me a time of 24m50s thereabout. This is a PR, beating my last best by about 50s. I had quite a fair bit of aches after this on my butt and legs in general! Saturday was planned as a long ride day. Basically after a month plus of non long distance riding plus the accumu...