rain? no rain? rain? no rain!

Yesterday morning when I woke up it was wet and drizzling. The weather forecast predicted drizzle and rain all day, so I decided to hop on the wind trainer for a 2 hours training cos we can't skate on the track when it's wet.
My legs felt a little bit better but were still sore and while I was pedaling and watching a movie, the sky cleared and the sun came out.
I thought about stopping and going skating at night, but I thought it's gonna rain again later anyway so I kept going.

Wrong decision though, the sun was shining for almost four hours and it didn't rain again, so the track was good to go (apart from a few puddles). I decided to go skating even though my legs felt tired from training in the morning.
We did a 15min warm-up, then some individual starts and some starts in the group (which I all missed as usual), followed by exercises in the corners for 2min each, for 10min in total and then 6 x 800 meters (5 laps). And omg I was hurting. The first one already killed me and from then on I struggled to even stay behing the two guys (my boyfriend and a guy from the club). After the first three 800 meters were over I was about to quit, but kept going and dying out there… My hamstrings hurt, my thighs hurt and my calfs hurt and I could not move my legs any faster. I normally whinge a lot at training, but I always keep going. So I think as long as I finish whatever I have to do, I'm allowed to whinge. However, the last one was of course the hardest and I was so glad when it was over. I really couldn't have done another one.

Today I only wanted to train once cos my body needed some rest after yesterda. That doesn't meen that today's training wasn't going to be hard though. I did a 10min warm-up jog, then an interval 5 - 5 - 4 - 4 - 3 - 3 - 2 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 30 sec (that means 5min fast, 5min slow, 4min fast, 4min slow and so on) followed by a 10min cool-down jog and 5min stretching.
The first one went way better than I expected and I held a steady, pretty fast pace through the whole 5min. The shorter the intervals got, the faster I ran and the last 30 sec I was just sprinting. It was a really good training and I was in good shape. And the best thing was, that this time there was a cold diet coke waiting for me - and even a piece of cake.
So in today's training I did 9,6 km in 51:26min (including warm-up and cool-down) with an average speed of 10,96 km/h. Of course you can't really compare these numbers as it was an interval training with slower jogs in between, but I thought I just put it out there :)