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good session tonight, wanted some speed work due to not having done much due to the cough. ran to training, then 2 mile warm up with the group, 5x1 mile reps again (at 5:45/mile average) then ran home. total mileage around 10 miles.
good session. can't be arsed to cook so it's a big bowl of porridge oats
good session. can't be arsed to cook so it's a big bowl of porridge oats
Berlin Mike said:
That's going some, faster than my racing speed! What's your marathon personal best?
I've just updated your new Wiki - you'll see I'm a good 10 minutes behind you. Last summer I would have been confident of getting somewhere close to your PB, but then the wheels (or more accurately my feet!) fell off. Building back up to it now... obviously at 6:30-ish training pace I was pretty confident of a 2:50-something.London may be too much, too soon... my real target is an autumn marathon, so I'll see how the training goes over the next few weeks.
The jiffle king said:
Uptheiron - Do you do many tempo runs?...
Yep, lots of tempo runs and they (along with races) give me confidence in my pace. Regular sub-6 work though is something I need to put more effort in to - it's primarily a mental block and I'm getting there slowly.It's great to hear your are progressing your recovery :-)
...in a spiritual sense.Looks like it's going to be a hard year this year. It was the first run this year for the Berlin Runners Cup, a series of 15 competitions, best 8 results for each runner add up to your final total.
Today was the first run, a 10K in a park here. My time was 37:20 I've just gone up a year to the over 50's group (M50) which looks like being very hard fought. I came in fourth in M50, a hair's breadth behind the third bloke. All four of us were comfortably in front of all the M45 who came in thick and fast behind.
I seems that I need to do some speed work on the shorter distances!
Today was the first run, a 10K in a park here. My time was 37:20 I've just gone up a year to the over 50's group (M50) which looks like being very hard fought. I came in fourth in M50, a hair's breadth behind the third bloke. All four of us were comfortably in front of all the M45 who came in thick and fast behind.
I seems that I need to do some speed work on the shorter distances!
Edited by Berlin Mike on Sunday 4th March 15:25
Berlin Mike said:
Looks like it's going to be a hard year this year. It was the first run this year for the Berlin Runners Cup, a series of 15 competitions, best 8 results for each runner add up to your final total.
Today was the first run, a 10K in a park here. My time was 37:20 I've just gone up a year to the over 50's group (M50) which looks like being very hard fought. I came in fourth in M50, a hair's breadth behind the third bloke. All four of us were comfortably in front of all the M45 who came in thick and fast behind.
I seems that I need to do some speed work on the shorter distances!
well done that's a good time. the M50 seems very competitive over here too. there is one chap i'm a tiny bit behind who recently ran a 35:40 10k who is 51 years old. there is another chap at our club who is 49 (50 in May!) who has run sub 34mins this year....incredible!Today was the first run, a 10K in a park here. My time was 37:20 I've just gone up a year to the over 50's group (M50) which looks like being very hard fought. I came in fourth in M50, a hair's breadth behind the third bloke. All four of us were comfortably in front of all the M45 who came in thick and fast behind.
I seems that I need to do some speed work on the shorter distances!
Edited by Berlin Mike on Sunday 4th March 15:25
steady 10.15 miles for me this morning/afternoon (missed the rain, luckily) @ 7:29/mile which i was happy with because never did it feel hard, surprising after how hard i pushed myself in the race yesterday.
day off tomorrow then back to training tuesday. eaten lots today and just to cap it off i've eaten a pack of wine gums and a kit-kat chunky caramel
Having set myself a 6 week schedule to beat my parkrun PB of 23.27 I managed to do it this week with a 23.11 
, which got me closer to my nearest rival on the PH wiki, but didn't gain be any places! The down side of course is that I now think I should push a bit further to get a 22.59 although I'm going to give myself a bit of a rest (after all, I'm only supposed to be doing it for fun and not being competitive!) and do some volunteering and 25 minute pacing.
Actually I find pacing quite enjoyable, knowing that I've got time in hand and being able to have a chat on the way.
As there's been talk about marathons in recent posts, if you don't already know about this, the Marathon Talk Podcast is worth a listen, useful training talk and amazing interviews with marathon and other distance runners.
, which got me closer to my nearest rival on the PH wiki, but didn't gain be any places! The down side of course is that I now think I should push a bit further to get a 22.59 although I'm going to give myself a bit of a rest (after all, I'm only supposed to be doing it for fun and not being competitive!) and do some volunteering and 25 minute pacing.Actually I find pacing quite enjoyable, knowing that I've got time in hand and being able to have a chat on the way.
As there's been talk about marathons in recent posts, if you don't already know about this, the Marathon Talk Podcast is worth a listen, useful training talk and amazing interviews with marathon and other distance runners.
Edited by john2443 on Monday 5th March 10:36
so come on, who went training tonight?
as per the usual Tuesday tradition, i ran there (only 1.5 miles each way....Thursdays is 3 miles each way -too far) then we did another 1.5 miles as a warm up then 20x250m reps with a 30 second recovery. this got really quite hard after 14-15 reps as you were still really out of breath from the last rep before it's time to set off again. then, 1.5 miles back to the start point, then another 1.5 miles back home....so a good 9 miles tonight.
anyway, average pace for the 250m reps was 4:54/mile which wasn't tooooo bad considering the fact i've done no "proper" speed work for a quite a long time, certainly nothing as short as 250m reps.
steady 5 miles tomorrow before another hard session thursday. plan on some hill reps Saturday before doing a lovely ~12 mile run around some off-road trails around brecon beacons from pontsticill reservoir. we have this as a gradual climb at one point....still, the scenery ain't bad
some google maps images of the trails i'm going to be running on...
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.875504,-3.408015&a...
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=51.841,...
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=51.8424...
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=51.8663...
gotta love wales for it's scenery
lovely places to go running....almost everywhere!!
as per the usual Tuesday tradition, i ran there (only 1.5 miles each way....Thursdays is 3 miles each way -too far) then we did another 1.5 miles as a warm up then 20x250m reps with a 30 second recovery. this got really quite hard after 14-15 reps as you were still really out of breath from the last rep before it's time to set off again. then, 1.5 miles back to the start point, then another 1.5 miles back home....so a good 9 miles tonight.
anyway, average pace for the 250m reps was 4:54/mile which wasn't tooooo bad considering the fact i've done no "proper" speed work for a quite a long time, certainly nothing as short as 250m reps.
steady 5 miles tomorrow before another hard session thursday. plan on some hill reps Saturday before doing a lovely ~12 mile run around some off-road trails around brecon beacons from pontsticill reservoir. we have this as a gradual climb at one point....still, the scenery ain't bad
some google maps images of the trails i'm going to be running on...
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.875504,-3.408015&a...
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=51.841,...
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=51.8424...
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=51.8663...
gotta love wales for it's scenery
lovely places to go running....almost everywhere!!E38Ross said:
so come on, who went training tonight?
as per the usual Tuesday tradition, i ran there (only 1.5 miles each way....Thursdays is 3 miles each way -too far) then we did another 1.5 miles as a warm up then 20x250m reps with a 30 second recovery. this got really quite hard after 14-15 reps as you were still really out of breath from the last rep before it's time to set off again. then, 1.5 miles back to the start point, then another 1.5 miles back home....so a good 9 miles tonight.
anyway, average pace for the 250m reps was 4:54/mile which wasn't tooooo bad considering the fact i've done no "proper" speed work for a quite a long time, certainly nothing as short as 250m reps.
steady 5 miles tomorrow before another hard session thursday. plan on some hill reps Saturday before doing a lovely ~12 mile run around some off-road trails around brecon beacons from pontsticill reservoir. we have this as a gradual climb at one point....still, the scenery ain't bad
some google maps images of the trails i'm going to be running on...
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.875504,-3.408015&a...
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=51.841,...
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=51.8424...
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=51.8663...
gotta love wales for it's scenery lovely places to go running....almost everywhere!!
Very nice running scenery is that. Have a good one.as per the usual Tuesday tradition, i ran there (only 1.5 miles each way....Thursdays is 3 miles each way -too far) then we did another 1.5 miles as a warm up then 20x250m reps with a 30 second recovery. this got really quite hard after 14-15 reps as you were still really out of breath from the last rep before it's time to set off again. then, 1.5 miles back to the start point, then another 1.5 miles back home....so a good 9 miles tonight.
anyway, average pace for the 250m reps was 4:54/mile which wasn't tooooo bad considering the fact i've done no "proper" speed work for a quite a long time, certainly nothing as short as 250m reps.
steady 5 miles tomorrow before another hard session thursday. plan on some hill reps Saturday before doing a lovely ~12 mile run around some off-road trails around brecon beacons from pontsticill reservoir. we have this as a gradual climb at one point....still, the scenery ain't bad
some google maps images of the trails i'm going to be running on...
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.875504,-3.408015&a...
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=51.841,...
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=51.8424...
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=51.8663...
gotta love wales for it's scenery
lovely places to go running....almost everywhere!!I ran yesterday lunchtime feeling rather under the weather. A friend put me on to Strava. Does anyone else use it?
The premise is there are 'segments' (read routes) which others users have logged which you can run through with a GPS device and upload to their website for a time. It also works for biking which appears more popular.
It's a great little incentive, knowing you're in a race against others. It worked perfectly with my training, gentle run out, blast the 2 mile segment I was challenging, then gentle run back. I'm now eager to get back out and run some other segments now, if only it wasn't for bloody man flu!
The premise is there are 'segments' (read routes) which others users have logged which you can run through with a GPS device and upload to their website for a time. It also works for biking which appears more popular.
It's a great little incentive, knowing you're in a race against others. It worked perfectly with my training, gentle run out, blast the 2 mile segment I was challenging, then gentle run back. I'm now eager to get back out and run some other segments now, if only it wasn't for bloody man flu!
just got a pair of these through the post
http://www.amazon.co.uk/ASICS-Gel-DS-Racer-Running...
lovely and light. about time i had another proper lightweight road shoe. i've been using the asics gel ds trainer which are absolutely superb as they're pretty light as well as give enough support, but it's always nice to run in something lighter come race days
http://www.amazon.co.uk/ASICS-Gel-DS-Racer-Running...
lovely and light. about time i had another proper lightweight road shoe. i've been using the asics gel ds trainer which are absolutely superb as they're pretty light as well as give enough support, but it's always nice to run in something lighter come race days
20 gentle miles on Sunday, gym the last two nights - 7.25 at 8min / mil to get into work this morning - just avoided the rain so all good.
Silverstone half on Sunday - hoping for under 1.35 but will have to wait and see how I feel.
John2443 - if you could avoid going and faster at parkruns that would be ideal, i'm just above you and I had to do a 19.39 to do that, i really cannot go any faster......
Silverstone half on Sunday - hoping for under 1.35 but will have to wait and see how I feel.
John2443 - if you could avoid going and faster at parkruns that would be ideal, i'm just above you and I had to do a 19.39 to do that, i really cannot go any faster......
esuuv said:
John2443 - if you could avoid going and faster at parkruns that would be ideal, i'm just above you and I had to do a 19.39 to do that, i really cannot go any faster......
Sorry, but I am hoping to go a bit faster, I only need to take a couple of seconds off to get above you Gassing Station | Sports | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff