Back dans les Bacs

I had a busy week end in France & I have great news.

1. I have two interviews this week, so fingers crossed.

2. I had a gift from my parents. A beautiful (...) running watch. It gives me my pace, the kilometers, the time, everything while I run, so now I am ready.

3. I went for a quick run with my father on Sunday. It was supposed to be quick because I woke up at 5:20 am to take my plane to France on Saturday, and I had a little family reunion on Saturday night (we were about 120 !) so I did not sleep much. But my father kind of tricked me into my longest run ever.55 minutes on my watch, 47 minutes on his, I prefer mine :). But anyway it is the longest I have ever run since the debacle of the NYC marathon. There were some walking moments, but not that much. And most importantly, it was at 11 am, faaar too late for me, it was hot, but I quite enjoyed it ! It wasn't that hard, of course I would have rather stayed in bed reading or spending time with my family, but it was worth it at the end :)

4. Last but not least, I started intervals this morning... Oh God how I haven't miss those... The plan was to sprint for 30 seconds, then walk for 30 seconds, and to repeat that 10 times. It started bad as I wasn't even able to run the first 15 minutes I had planned before even starting the intervals. Then I sprinted for the first time : 10.3 km/h. Umph that's bad... I walked for 30 seconds, and sprinted a second time : 10.8. Already better. I am gonna spare you the details but the 30/30 ratio became a 30 seconds running / 1 minute walking, than a 30 seconds running / walking until I am ok, then a 20 seconds running / walking until I am ok, then running as long as I can / walking until I am able to breathe and my face stops burning... BUT at the end, I was sprinting at 12.6 km/h ! And I did all 10 of the intervals I had planned.
To finish, I decided to run home, and obviously enough, I was running at 7 km/h - 7.5 km/h, whereas my usual pace is 6 km/h (don't laugh !). I ran in total for 43 minutes so pretty good run/walk after all :)

ps : I am EXHAUSTED ! It's the first time since a long time that my legs hurt so much. Welcome back intervals ! I don't wanna think of Thursday... :(