My last six 5K time trial results, before today:

28 Jun 08 . 00:28:15
14 Jun 08 . 00:27:34
24 May 08 . 00:26:30
03 May 08 . 00:28:41
19 Apr 08 . 00:27:22
12 Apr 08 . 00:26:55

And today:

16 Aug 08 . 00:30:58

I knew that, after being so positive during the week, the reliable performance barometer that is the HPTT would probably tell a different story. On today's performance, I'm back to where I was at the end of February.

My next HPTT is on 6th September and I'm hoping to do a lot better by then. I ended up walking parts of the last kilometre today which I almost never do, so if I can at least avoid that then I should be good to get back under 30 minutes again.

It's hard not to treat this as a some kind of failure, but I'm taking it as a kick up the arse.