Mon 05 Feb 07, gym & a recovery run

With a change to my routine for the next month or so I couldn't get into the city early, which meant I extended my lunch break to 70 minutes so I could fit in my gym session and shower and change. 50 minutes in the gym today and I felt a lot better than the previous week, the ice bath worked a treat.

Tonight I was at Fed Square for the first Run for the Kids training group, I jogged from work to Fed Square and then to Niketown to change my shoes over (they stuffed my sizing) and then jogged back to the group, so a few k's already. I was allocated the slow 8km group, which was advertised it would be run at 7 min per km pace, which I thought was way to slow and thankfully I was proven right, today. I only had four in my group, so I took them out probably at 6:30 pace for the first 1.5km but already I knew they were easily going to run this at that pace and faster. My group remained together and we even past two from the medium 8k (they had their Leader & they will need to change groups next week), our overall pace was 6:15ish, with the final km at 5:45 pace. Surprisingly my group tonight was all male, which is very different, and I suggested to two of the guys to run with the medium group for their next outing.

Tonight all of the Run Leaders were given a pair of shoes (I chose Zoom Elites 3), shorts, a tech T, cap, sweat bands (???), socks & a cool little sports bag. We will also be given a singlet and a compression top with the possibility of a running jacket too (hope so). So all up a really good deal!