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15 April

Run 5K @ 26:01 ( 5:12 pace )

Taper week, keeping same intensity but lowering mileage as always.
This 5K was done up-tempo but nowhere near max, expecting its average pace to land about 10'' below recent 5:20 8Ks. Bingo!

12 April

INCLINE DB PRESS : 4x10 @ 20 kg  each hand
LAT PULL DOWN : 4x10 @ 71kg
DB OHP :  4x10 @ 17.5kg each hand
DB HAMMER CURL : 3x12 @ 15 kg each hand ( +2.5kg per hand for first set )
ROPE PUSHDOWN :  3x12 @ 23kg ( +6kg for all sets )

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13 April

"Race emulation run

2K low aerobic HR zone warmup
Run 6x800m @ race target pace / 90'' walking rest
2K low aerobic HR zone cool down

Goal pace was 4:45 (which leads to 47:30 10K run and a whole minute PR ).
I got : 4:45 4:47 4:45 4:43 4:46 4:41

That was nice. Body tended to pick up a 4:40 pace but i controlled it. If I'm on a good day and weather helps, it feels like i can keep this for the entire 10K race.

Here are my goals:
47:30 or below will be amazing
47:30 to 48:30 (PR) will be success
48:30 to 50:00 will be acceptable if something goes bad, e.g shoe untied like last year , bad weather, some small ache/mishap etc.
50:00 and above will be pure fail.

10 April

BB BENCH : 10 @ 50, 52.5, 52,5, 55 kg
SEATED CABLE ROW : 10 @ 65, 65, 71, 71 kg ( + 6 kg for last 2 sets )
LATERAL DB RAISE : 4x10, @ 12.5kg each hand
EZ BAR CURL : 3x12 @ 32.5 kg
DB TRICEP EXT :  12@ 17.5, 20, 20 kg ( + 6 kg for last 2 sets )

Felt very strong.

5 April

DEADLIFT :
8 @ 30kg
5 @ 50kg
5 @ 70 kg
4 @ 90kg
3 @ 110kg
1 @ 130kg

INCLINE DB PRESS : 4x10 @ 20 kg  each hand
LAT PULL DOWN : 4x10 @ 71kg
DB OHP :  4x10 @ 17.5kg each hand
DB HAMMER CURL : 12 @ 12.5 , 15 , 15 kg each hand ( +2.5kg per hand for last 2 sets )
ROPE PUSHDOWN :  3x12 @ 17kg

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8 April

2.5K low aerobic HR zone warmup
Sprint 8x400m / 90'' walking rest
2K low aerobic HR zone cool down

Goal was 4:20 average pace with negative splits at the last 3 ones.
I got : 4:20 4:25 4:30 4:19 4:19 4:15 4:12 3:59

Its going really good lately. Pity i didn't start pushing earlier. Race is 12 days, I'm not at the level I'd want to, but i think i can challenge my 48:31 PR

3 April

BB BENCH : 10 @ 50, 52.5, 52,5, 55 kg ( + 2.5 kg for set 2, 4 )
SEATED CABLE ROW : 10 @ 65, 65, 65, 65 kg
LATERAL DB RAISE : 4x10, @ 12.5kg each hand
EZ BAR CURL : 3x12 @ 32.5 kg  ( + 2.5 kg for all sets )
DB TRICEP EXT :  3x12@ 17.5kg
LEG EXTENSION : 3x12 @ 40kg
SL LEG CURL :  3x12 each leg @17kg

Strong! Could have added weight at rows and tricep exts and ofc at the legs, kinda mad that i didn't.

1 April

RUN 10K @ 58:10 ( 5:49 pace )

First time doing 10K in 2024. Held back pace a little, wanted the distance stimulus.
Ended up 20s/km slower than last week which is a bit too much but also run was done at +90% humidity air with African desert dust, kinda awful.
Also, 8K split was at 5:53 pace , then finished strong with 5:35 and 5:28 negative splits. Sweet.

27 March

RUN 8.5K @ 46:33 ( 5:29 pace )

Fastest&longest 'real' run of 2024. Ive run faster but it was 8K and ive run 8.5K but i was slower

Also , weirdly, the run disappeared from Garmin app. It was saved normally in the watch and it synced with the app, but Garmin servers were down at that moment ( Wednesday night here, noon in US ). Then when they came back up and app synced, the run disappeared . FML it was a good run, i wanted it to affect my data.

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28 March

Low aerobic HR zone run 8K @ 58:38 ( 7:20 pace )

That ties the longest low HR run of 2024 (but was much faster).
Also was the fastest one (even from shorter ones).
And obviously the longest-and-fastest one.

Nice, nice.