Hill Run & A Wet & Fast 10k

Just to keep it short.

Saturday: Registered for PJ Half! Now I'm motivated! However, I don't know whether I'm capable of a 2:15 qualifying time. I'm not at mein peak. One thing I'm sure I'll beat last year's time of about 2:36.

Sunday: Walked with wifey one round of Damai hill route. Then ran same route of about 2k in 17:59 thereabouts. Nothing to it.

Monday (today): Drizzling! But because of the looming PJ Half, went for a run anyway. And what a blazing run it was.

Round 1
TwoTrees to Tesco End 1.1km 1.1km 6:55 6:55
Tesco End to TwoTrees 1.1km 2.2km 6:36 13:31
TwoTrees to Barricade 0.9km 3.1km 5:33 19:04
Barricade to TwoTrees 0.9km 4.0km 5:14 24:18

Round 2
TwoTrees to Tesco End 1.1km 5.1km 6:35 30:53 can believe ar?
Tesco End to TwoTrees 1.1km 6.2km 8:01 38:54
TwoTrees to Barricade 0.9km 7.1km 5:42 44:36
Barricade to TwoTrees 0.9km 8.0km 5:48 50:24

Round 3
TwoTrees to Tesco End 1.1km 9.1km 7:09 57:33
Tesco End to TwoTrees 1.1km 10.2km 7:36 1:05:09 ** almost a sub 1:05!

At 5k I'm too panchited, so took a 1-min walk break which explains the 8-min timing. In the end, I was just 10 seconds off a sub-1:05 10.2k. Definitely a sub-1:05 10k. Yahooo!

Thinking... If I can run the half non-stop (ie non-Galloway) at consistent pace, maybe can save enough time to qualify. Dunno lah. Not enough hill-training & speedwork. Mebbe I should do Sunday LSDs non-stop and see how long I can do it. If I can do it for 2:20 then all settled, I'm running non-Galloway this PJ Half. This Sunday will give it a try.