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shermaramaRight, parkrun results finally through and I did it in 28:55, which is only about a minute slower than top speed. Considering that this route contains hills, I hadn't run for a week and I walked some of the back hill on the third lap, I'm pretty impressed with that. My plan of keeping the stride rate high when going up hills by way of taking my tempo from short people seems to have worked.
The only problem is, that's still only 51.5% on age grading. In the Senior Women 30-34 category that have done the Hove parkrun, I'm 162nd. I want to be faster than that, and I think I've proved by now that just going round doing 5ks in the park doesn't help in itself. I did quite a lot of walking up big hills carrying heavy stuff this week, which probably did help. Conventional running wisdom seems to be that I should run faster intervals, which from what I've done of that, doesn't help, although maybe I haven't done enough interval training sequentially. There's got to be something that works, though.
The only problem is, that's still only 51.5% on age grading. In the Senior Women 30-34 category that have done the Hove parkrun, I'm 162nd. I want to be faster than that, and I think I've proved by now that just going round doing 5ks in the park doesn't help in itself. I did quite a lot of walking up big hills carrying heavy stuff this week, which probably did help. Conventional running wisdom seems to be that I should run faster intervals, which from what I've done of that, doesn't help, although maybe I haven't done enough interval training sequentially. There's got to be something that works, though.