Now You See Me

Committed to getting out in the street eventually I treated myself today to a pair of running tights with fluorescent yellow flashes and reflective trim for the dark cold nights. They saw me coming.. and you'll see me going.. hopefully.

Knocked Back again
Second Treadmill session of the week week went well moving to 8 x 1 min run intervals with just 1 min walk between. Just about 2km again and all felt well until post exercise stretches when I felt a sting of pain in the calf in one leg and lower achilles in the other, can't recall which, doh! Anyway, 20 lengths of the pool was fine until climbing the steps which felt on the edge of hurting (but not).
Home stretches during the weekend triggered repeat alarming pulls and my hopes for a road run at weekend were put on hold as I kept having calf pain and my achilles felt 'weak'. However, there is no particular tenderness in the tendons themselves so I've delayed my Monday session giving another 24hrs and, rather than progress again along my planned training path, I'll restart as last week with 1/1:30 intervals.

Treadmill Pace
Treadmill pace for last week's second session was 8kph / 4.7kph (up from 7 / 4 previous) which felt about right. I noticed that the auto cool down speed was 4.8 so I think I'll adopt that in future for the walk interval. It also struck me during the cool down, that the gradient is dropped off and logically, my 5 min walking warm-up could start level and increase gradient after a couple of minutes in a reverse fashion.