{"id":10121,"date":"2012-05-14T08:34:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T07:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10121"},"modified":"2012-05-13T08:01:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-13T07:01:09","slug":"a-new-pb-and-it-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/05\/a-new-pb-and-it-hurt\/","title":{"rendered":"A New PB &#8211; and it hurt!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a fairly lack lustre bike and run session on Thursday evening and then a similarly poor turbo trainer session on Friday I wasn&#8217;t really looking forward to a hard bike session followed immediately by a hard run on Saturday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"amazon_ad_left\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=alslikklworls&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as4&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;ref=ss_til&#038;asins=B005BNKDGW\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I was coming to the end of a hard week of training, my achilles was sore and brick sessions (a bike followed by a run) are notoriously hard. What&#8217;s more, I&#8217;d mowed the lawn the day before so my back was a little sore and we&#8217;d had a busy day running around doing some beekeeping so I wasn&#8217;t really ready for it. Despite this, I set up a little transition area &#8211; well, I put my running shoes outside &#8211; before we headed off into Aberystwyth to inspect the bees in our out apiary.<\/p>\n<p>The plan was to inspect the bees, then drive to the leisure centre where Anna and Morgan were going to go swimming. I meanwhile would cycle back to Borth, do my bike session and then head off for a run. The bike session went well. After a 10 mile warm up it consisted of ten 1 mile hard efforts with 90 seconds recovery between them. I did it by going backwards and forwards between Borth and Tre-Ddol a couple of times and pushed quite hard during the intervals. It was then a quick 2 mile ride back to our house a rapid transition into my running shoes and then off for a quick loop around to the boatyard.<\/p>\n<p>I went flat out on the run for the first mile, doing it in 5:41, my fastest ever 1 mile. I was wearing my new race shoes which felt lovely on the tarmac, but weren&#8217;t so great off road.\u00a0My pace therefore slowed a little for the next mile which was across the soft sand of the estuary but I kept the effort up as long as I could. Things got painful for the last stretch back towards our house. This was back on tarmac but went up over a little hill and into the wind. I kept the pressure on as much as I could and finally finished the varied terrain 2.5 miles in 15:07. That was a new PB for that course, my previous being 16:03 set almost a year ago on May 26th 2011.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to push hard now and then and maybe I am getting a little faster? Lets hope so.<\/p>\n<p>Although, you could argue that it&#8217;s all down to the shoes. I&#8217;ve only worn my <a title=\"New Shoes, New Strategy and a New PB\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/new-shoes-new-strategy-and-a-new-pb\/\">new race shoes<\/a> (<a title=\"Brooks Race Shoes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B005BNKDGW\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=alslikklworls&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=B005BNKDGW\">Brooks T7 Racers<\/a>) twice. Once in the <a title=\"Pwllheli Triathlon 2012 - Race Report\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/pwllheli-triathlon-2012-race-report\/\">Pwllheli Triathlon<\/a> where I set a new PB for 5k and then once on Saturday where I set a new PB for the boatyard loop.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a fairly lack lustre bike and run session on Thursday evening and then a similarly poor turbo trainer session on Friday I wasn&#8217;t really looking forward to a hard bike session followed immediately by a hard run on Saturday. 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