Summer 26 - The Reboot of a Masters Season
Day 0 Just coming up to 6 weeks of problems behind me and it finally feels like I can reset this journey back on the right path. Parkrun on Saturday showed me that I am a decent bit away from conditioning (the last mile was pretty much a struggle fest) but the good news was tat my hips and my calf held together at the pace point they have struggled at. After that I had a stag doo to attend so I sit here typing this with a pretty good (although not terminal) hangover. There is no time to waste now. I have to align everything to even get back where I was previously. The data looks like this - 3.12mi - 18:42(5:59/mi) 158/169bpm [946b/mi]. Splits were pretty consistent. Maybe slight fade in the last mile but was actually paced well. 158 bpm for 6/mm is actually in the right place BUT the 168 max is very, very high showing that the last mile was almost at full race effort. No warm up, in Megablast and off no training so it's to be expected. Compare to pre-injuries and data was 3.1mi - 1...