7m TRP

That's Target Race Pace.

Tenke's back in the land of the running, well almost. We met up and she had an iphone with her which went off after a few files. After she sorted the caller (making more calls and sending emails) she appolgised and asked me to check if we were ok pace wise. Wow. 7:30s bang on. Exactly the pace I needed. I was sweating and grunting a few words while she worked away on the phone like she was sat at her desk in the office.

Got all the way out on the left bank of the lake up the hill just beyond where the half marathon will turn at Manor and back we went.

7:34 ave pace for 7 miles. So no worries, looks like my target of going out with the 1:40 pacer and seeing how it goes will work fine. On today's performace I was steady as she blows in zone 3 with a dusting of zone 4 working the hill. Back into the wind slowed us down, but that was matched by the hrt drifting down through the run. Learnt a lot today about how things will be during the race. Feeling happier about it to have done a decent clip at TRP, rest till race day now.