It was freezing cold!
Running in the morning is not the same as running mid day, which is what I've been doing so far.
Two big lessons I learned from the race:
1. Warming up is even more important in the morning, when you haven't done much. Especially when it is so cold out there.
2. It's super important to be properly hydrated, and take some water with. When you run mid day, you already had quite a bit of liquid in you. If it's morning time you don't.
I got really thirsty about 30 minutes into the run. Normally I would go out without water when I go out for 1h.
Obviously that did slow me down. With cold muscles and no hydration, you can imagine that keeping on running wasn't easy.
I knew there was water at 5k, so I walked a bit of the remainder until Richard was waiting with the camera just before the 5k mark. He had a small bottle of water on him, which was really useful.
Still even though the walking along the way, I still managed to finish the race in 1h20, which was the goal.
Since then, the weeks training has continued with strength training sessions, mobility work and some short intervals.
Yesterday we had an 8mile run on the cards.
It was sleeting, rainy and windy.
But it had to be done.
Rakhee and me went out as agreed. It was really hard. Probably the hardest run so far. Not just because of the distance, but also because of the conditions.
And, another lesson learned: always eat a good meal of protein and carbs before going out.
My protein smoothie seems to be going down well.
I only had a roll and that was totally not enough. And I had nothing with me except for some water.
Lesson learned!
It's all a learning process at the moment.
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