Notes
Zlaty Zatopkuv Tyden - 5km. Didn't feel today strong enough to push hard, so I did hope for some steady tempo race, ideally near 4min/km. After start I forgot about tempo run and went "racing" immediately, but after 600m and cooling down a little I found out I'm pretty exactly where I wanted to be, lapping laps near 1:36, so I revived the original plan and just tried to keep it as steady as possible, and relax the body. After few laps the sun did start to grill us heavily, but the pace was just so-so and felt sort of easy, no power pulling, so I managed to keep it. There was some medium wind as well. I had enough reserves to increase the pace in last lap a lot, progressively whole lap, so I went safely under 20min. Done.
If I would try to push harder, I would probably get exhausted within 400m, the border line between feeling easy and relaxed and between feeling overpushing, boiling and exhausted was very thin, like maybe 5s per lap.
The warm up phase before race was a bit short, I came a bit late due to work, but it was still quite OK warm up, just not ready for some start sprint like I did month ago.
Health: very minor feel from right hamstring, not completely recovered, but doesn't look to be hurt more after race, and it's almost ok. Right Achilles feels still a bit better during massages, but did ache a bit during run, especially during warm up, and felt also a bit exhausted, so as always, far from good.