Week 3 Day 6 PM
5KM Time Trial ✅
A massive Personal Best for my 5km with a time of 15:48.6 min.
Had a sachet of Mitoceps Plus at 12pm and another one at 4pm. Then did a imagination session on it and took a nap.
Initial target is to hit a sub 16:30 min but I primed myself to go for a suicide pace from the start and try to hold on it. Is either me being knockout or a personal best.
Put on Xtep 160x 2.0 and went for a short 1.5km warm up with some drills and striding.
Set a target of 3:10 min/km on my watch and went for it. Enjoy listening to my favourite songs on Edifier X5.
Ran the first km with the split of 2:56 min and kept going fast, trying my best to go for a sub 3:10 min on the next km.
2nd km split a 3:08 min and I felt so happy with it. I felt the damage from the fast 2km but I keep grinding and I know with a sub 10 min for final 3km will lead me to a Sub 16.
3rd km split a 3:13.8 min and I felt great with it. I realized my running cadence were dropping, and I focus on swinging my arm faster to keep up with the 190 spm that I set on my watch prior to the run.
4th km split a 3:14 min and I knew that there is only one final km to go, which is about 3 min plus of hardwork to end this time trial. So I tried to hold the pace, channel my focus on fast long stride for the first 500m and push the last 500m.
End the last km with a split of 3:16.1 min and super excited for this 15:48.6 min.
Today personal best credit to a do or die spirit. I put in the question of "What is the worst thing can happen to me on this 5km run if I gave it all?" The possible answer are a collapse halfway or a fast time.
Super excited to kick start a 6-weeks Half Marathon program. It's been a long long time not running Half Marathon.
*Tomorrow will go for a 1km Time Trial.
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