Not an overly impressive week but I'm still reasonably happy considering. As some would know, I don't train or run to plans or schedules, I use the 'feel factor' as a guide. Well the 'feel factor' kicked in this week which resulted in less k's travelled and at a slower pace (excepting for today - Sunday).

For all my runs except today (Sunday) there was a consistent heart rate reaction for the first five minutes of every run. Normally, the heart rate should steadily rise when starting out, for some reason mine had regular spikes upwards of 170 and eventually settled down as the run progressed. I doubt very much that it was a gadget malfunction as it was the same behaviour for all runs.

By Thursday my headaches/eye-strain developed which prevented me from running and by Saturday I was still out of sorts which peeved me no end as I missed the Sandown 10 km classic. I was eyeing off this at an attempt to break the 40 minute mark. Found out later that Martin and Louise both broke their ducks in this regard slipping under 40 minutes for the first time.

Here's the week in summary.

For today's (Sunday) run I ran a blinder. 12.3 km around Werribee River and right from the get-go I wasn't messing around. Normally my first kilometre's are usually around 5:15, you know, easing into it type of stuff. Today it was 4:44 and then I upped the ante. Overall came home in 53:17 which is an average of 4:19/km. Despite my heart rate issues for my other runs this week, today was perfect and normal, considering the extra effort I only maxed out at 161 bpm (89%) and averaged 153 bpm (85%).

I think the rest days and reduced running paid dividends for today's run.