No pain, no gain

Sometimes you have to push yourself to get any benefit from training. Unfortunatley that's the way running works - If you only had to run at a steady pace for half an hour to be successful we would all be world beaters. The session I did today required determination right from the off if I was going to get through it.
I decided on intervals, run faster than race pace, as I hadn't done any shortish reps for a couple of weeks. After an 8 minute warm up, I hit out the intervals, each being 2 minutes long with a 1 minute recovery. This wouldn't be too painful in a small quantity but after 13 of them you know you have pushed yourself to your limits! 13 it was and by god when you have done 1 or 2 knowing you have more than 10 to go, you wish you were somewhere else!
I gritted my teeth and got stuck into the session and I strangely have to say I began to enjoy it after I had got past the half way marker of 6 reps. This was perhaps because I felt pretty jaded in the first few efforts, but I definitley felt to get much stronger as the session went on.
The only problem was the sheet ice lieing around but the F-Lite 230s coped pretty well apart from the odd hairpin bend. In conclusion, this was a good session; very hard but definitley well worth the effort. After all, it is this sort of session that the good results come from and to get through it was an achievement in itself!