very high in the Barnard camp. Speed session this week (post illness): 3x200m with 30sec rest – 3 minute break (repeat 3 times)

Post chest infection, everything is back on track this week. Despite the rain, training is back in full flow and there are now about seven of us in the office attending a weekly sprints session on Tuesdays. Even though I did go a bit white towards

race times are concerned. But because 5K races are so short (and generally run at a higher intensity), the race is run at a pretty high percentage of VO₂. And according to a calculator at runningforfitness.org, I'd need a VO₂ max of at least 49.9. So

Time to work out a training schedule. The triathlon is now 8 weeks away. That's more than enough time to give me a fighting chance of running a sub 20-minute 5K. I'm booked into the Standard Chartered Great City Race, which takes place 4 weeks