Running a bit late yesterday morning, so only had time for 10K. Decided on the EF warm-up, followed by a hard 2.5K at hopefully sub-7 2K pace, and a 2.5K warm down.

5K 19:19.2 (1:55.9) 27

Getting better at this - maybe another second on the split and it'll be sensible.

2.5K 8:43.0 (1:44.6) 31

Very nasty. Expected to be able to do this easily at sub-7 pace, but really struggled. I hate mornings! Difficult to see how I'm going to break 17:30 for the 5K if I can barely manage half the distance at that pace.

2.5K 10:08.1 (2:01.6) 26

Steady warm-down.

Not going to report too much about the chess, but was actually a fairly successful weekend. Had demoted myself to the second team for one game after my abysmal results all year (not that this means any easier games as they are also in the top division), but actually managed to play a couple of okay games this time, drawing both against higher-rated opposition (one a FIDE Master like me, the other an International Master). Still not terribly inspired, but a whole lot better than it has been.

Team results were good too - the first team won one and drew one against two teams in the top half of the table, although dropping our first match point of the season means we slip from first to third in the division, and the second team won both matches to move from the bottom of the table to a very respectable mid-table position.

Metres: 10,000
Alcohol: Sat: maybe 10 (quite restrained by 4NCL standards); Sun: 4 (finishing off a bottle of wine)