20k training W4 : Fiftyrunstillmay 45 & 46 (RunForSteem)

As you can see in the title of the article, I only did two runs this week. I'll explain that in more details below.

First run: fartlek training

I started my week on Monday with a good fartlek training. Here is the detail of the session:

• 30' of warm-up at my endurance run
• 2 times 10x(20"/20") with 4' of rest between the two repetitions
• 10' of cool down

I find the 20"/20" quite hard because it's really fast and we don't have much time to recover between the fast 20". But it's also a fun training. Times flies during this kind of training because we never really stop. At the end, it was a good run under a beautiful blue sky!

Second run: endurance run

My second run, on Wednesday, was the endurance run. I had to do 60' at a 4'38"/km pace. As you can see on my Strava session, I didn't manage to do it. The first reason is because of the climbs. Considering that, I did it at a pace of 4'41"/km. But the second and most important reason is because my leg was hurting during the entire run. This is why I only did 49'. I will talk more about my leg below.

Third run: no run...

As I said at the beginning, I only ran two times this week. This is of course because of my leg. I wanted to run when I woke up this morning. But my leg was still hurting just while walking. I decided not to run because of that.
I know what is this pain. I have a periostitis since a few years and it comes back when I run too much. That's why some rest can only be good for my leg (because a periostitis is caused by the repetitive shocks). I can't run this weekend so I will see on Tuesday if I'm good or not.

In total, I just did 21.1 km in 1 hour 43 minutes this week.

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