Run like the Wind…

It was unbelievably cold last night. I think around -2. Foolishly I decided to do the interval/threshold training session, and suffered as a result. I had two buffs on, three layers, gloves, all that Jazz and still, after 40mins of hard running I don’t think I had broken a sweat. My legs and joints felt heavy and stiff – breathing was touching on the painful. We ended up doing 6 x 2min at 80% effort sandwiched between an 8min threshold run either side. Luckily Primrose Hill is included within the royal park of Regents – so the paths had been well gritted – you just had to avoid the various dead snowmans littering the sides. I’m writing this as I gear myself up for a lunchtime 5miler – it’s not helping. The ipod will be my saving grace, that and two buffs again…