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title: Week 27 - Summer Training and Endurance Development
seo_title: "Running Week 27 - Leamington Spa Half Marathon"
seo_description: "Week 27 of my 2019 running challenge: a pyramid speed session with CLC Striders, then the Leamington Spa half marathon, run with a cold and no sleep."
total: [18.4]
tag:
  - runs
type: blog
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On Wednesday I was again at the CLC Striders speed session which, after a small warmup, was a pyramid of 1 min at 1 mile pace, 2 minutes at 3k pace, 3 minutes at 5km with half the time as recovery in between
after two rounds a 5 minute break and then repeat. I cut short the session after the 3rd set, with Leamington Half on my mind.

Sunday I did 13.1 miles in the Leamington Half, I ran the first 8 miles at tempo pace and felt ok, despite being full of cold and not sleeping at all the night before
I chose to do a tactical walk up a big couple of hills around mile 9 and 10. and then took it easy to get back to the finish. The Half was unusual in that it started at 8:30 am a bit earlier than I have normally seen
It was a smart decision as it got hot, very hot towards the last 5 miles or so.

At half way I was on for 1:50 pace and could have pushed for a PB if I was feeling good, but in my mind from the outset I was aiming to come in under
2 hours and I scrapped in at 1:59:26 officially, although my garmin said 1:58 - I'm guessing chip time.

Now i've got a couple of down weeks, before Cheltenham Half training plan kicks off on the 21st July.

- 4.2 miles - workout
- 13.1 miles - race