With a few exceptions where I dipped down to 9min/mile, sub-9, or even, like yesterday's sub-8 (11.5 mile) effort, the whole of this lockdown has been one big recovery run.
How else do you explain the fact that in the first week of lockdown I ran my highest mileage week, a week that Strava informed me was 'easy' and that I could push a bit harder?
Actually I'm going to try and introduce a bit more structure to my runs, and alternate easy days with those in which I push just a bit harder. Yesterday and today are a good start.
Today's recovery run was excellent, and it was an 11 min/mile pace. I'm really on a learning curve with these recovery runs, because what I've realised is that they should be truly easy. If you are pushing at all, in any way, then it's too hard.
Today I tried to run down the median of Bagshot Road, and was successful for a while, but it became so unpleasant that I gave up when the opportunity presented itself. I cut away from Bagshot Road at Rapley Farm, and then used my ever-expanding mental map to navigate my way back home through the forest.
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