Before BRIC, when I was taking on various British Records there were a few WR’s that looked ‘doable’ so bided my time until after BRIC to take them on. Now I’ve planned to take on one a week for the next 4 weeks, each as a hard AT type session in a short programme leading up to a 2k race in Feb. Pretty sure that race will be in St Austell for a crack at the 2k BR.
First up was the 6k (which for some reason I thought was for the sub 7 ITC as well, only to find it’s 10k this month doh
), next week will be a 10k, the following week 30 minutes and finally the 5k. Graded them with my perception of ‘easiest’ to ‘hardest’ although each are hard as you’d expect.So, 6k pace was pretty easy to fathom out following a hard 5k (17:09.8) I’d done last week for the IRL. Out hard for the 1st k then sit on 310w and push the last 1000m to bring it home. And so did pretty much that. No real dramas as I was ahead of the game from the off which helped the mental battle.
Nice feeling to be top of the pile in something.
Scores on the doors
Previous 6k WR = 20:40.4
Previous 6k BR = 21:09.3
6000m – 28 – 1:42.8 – 322 – 20:33.8 - New WR (to be confirmed)
1k Splits
1:40.3 – 30 – 346
1:44.0 – 28 – 311
1:44.1 – 28 – 310
1:44.1 – 27 – 310
1:44.0 – 28 – 311
1:40.2 – 30 – 347
