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I shall be there again this year
expecting to be in the last 20
again
HRC are absolutely lovely people and though I've not raced Harlow 10 before have done XCs with them and train regularly there and always get a fantastic welcome.
Will be running if I can convince my coach and if so hopefully challenging for the win. If I can't then will you be needing volunteers to help out VicNVin?
Hobbling Harrier
We are always needing willing volunteers to help out on Harlow 10 day. Please send the club an e-mail: harlowrc@gmail.com if you do want to help out.
Week Two
Thu 1M jog, then 3M (approx 21 mins) brisk, then 1M jog
Fri Rest
Sat 7M (approx 50 mins) steady
Sun 13M (approx 1hr 33) steady
Thursday: Completed the 3M in 21mins and 49secs using a 1.5M route. The second lap only took 10 mins and 34 secs.
Saturday: Beat my Thursday time by 4 seconds. Still slow by 4mins and 24 seconds.
Sunday: Not going to try for the time as most of my training has been under 40 miles a week and this week will be 44 miles and next week over 50 miles. Set off at an easy pace just over 8 min mile. At 7 miles wanted to give up. No, determined to get the distance, so done another route which will get me just under 13 miles. Jogged 12.75M in 1 hour 45 mins and 49 secs
Next week.
Week Three
Mon 7M (approx 58 mins) easy
Tue 1M jog, then 6 x 1M (or 6 mins) brisk, with 400m (2-min) jog recoveries, then 1M jog
Wed Rest
Thu 7M (approx 50 mins) easy
Fri 5M (approx 41 mins) easy
Sat 5M (approx 40 mins) slow
Sun 14M (approx 1hr 40) steady
Hey Ockham,
Have you looked at Fetcheveryone? You can blog on there, and record training and PBs and everything? You might find it useful.
T
I tried it as I usually blog.. but blogged for a year on Run To The Beat London Half Mara and they don't seem to have their forums open yet for this year. and you could import it to Facebook from there.
I joined Fetch but left.. meant to be very supportive at runs. Only left as it was too much for me to work out
Think you might like it though... can record everything. I couldn't get blog to import to FBook.
Oh, and it's part of Runners World.
You are training well then!
Ah but, they are very supportive on there - I just like the simpleness of this site. You can keep records of your training easily though. You shouldn't be put off but the levels of others - I generally find, as a bit of a slow runner (just out of 'plodding phase') that anyone above my level are extremely supportive.
You can blog, enter your times and it works out your PBs!, and record all your training. Think it would do the job for you. Me... I don't write anything down
OR
Fetch is a great place to record all your training & race times.
There's so much more to it than that though, but it's up to you which resources you do & don't use on the site. You'll find great supporrt if you do blog or use the chat threads.
I would certainly recommend starting on there to log your training & races and then take it from there.
Hiya, yes I did join, briefly, just found between here, email, msn, and Facebook I had enough to look at each time I logged on
I did enter all my races, and had contact with a couple of people. There is so much you can do on there.. it just seemed too much. I've no doubt it's beneficial, thought it def would be for OR as he is recording his training. Was just trying to help 
Tracy, I recorded my training runs for Bungay half. Should have posted on the training forum but did not want all the attention. Thanks for the help, will give Fetch some serious thought.
Bob you have done quite a few races and distances.
Do you want me to get back to posting VicnVin? Might get more people interested in the race. Only about 70 runners so far.
The 1hr 30 mins Garmin schedule has been a real struggle to jog at the required paces, still I think I could get round in under 75 mins now. Another six weeks to go, and to get to 70 mins looks a tall order.
Ockam R - we have taken our eyes of the forum, apologies.
The 1:30 schedule you are following is a Half Mara Shedule I assume given your 70-75 minute target. I trained for a 1:30.12 half using the RW 1:30 schedules and the paces are tough if you do not have the raw speed. Endurace can get you a long way though.
We traditionally get a large number of postal entries and people enteringp on the day.
VicnVin, yes it is a half marathon schedule. Hope to do a half race in the Autumn, possibly Norwich or a smaller race if I can find one. If you use McMillan race calculator,it gives a time of 67:46 for a 10 mile race if you can get a 90 min half. As it has taken me about six weeks to get comfortable at doing 40 mile weeks I think a realistic time would be 70 mins. So that is what I am aiming for. Plus I'm struggling to keep a 7 min mile pace, it is currently 7:10
I'll probably post my entry this week and save the £2 it costs to enter though this site. What size envelope do you require for the S.A.E?
In the post today.
A RW event upate, e-mail says 98 Runners' World runners have entered. Closing date 10th July.
OR, take a look at the route: http://www.mapmyrun.com/run/united-kingdom/harlow/619123705410270934
For spectating you essentialy have two choices unless you are prepared to run around a lot (not easy!):
You could walk from the start to ~0.5 miles where there is a park as this may offer a better view of the runners once they have spread out after the start, allowing an easy walk back for the track finish. I would certainly advise being at the finish to whatch the fast track sprints to the line!
Alternatively, you could go to the 2.5/6.5 mile point where runners pass twice over the motorway bridge, but parking out here is not easy, but possible in the housing estates near the 2 mile marker. It should be possible to get back in time, but it would be tight.
Hope this helps.
Thought I would just check to see if they have updated the list of runners and they have. My name is in the list.
http://www.thehrc.org.uk/harlow10/harlow10_entrants_2009.pdf
Cannot believe it, it will be July tomorrow and nobody other than VicnVin and me has posted since 17th May.
Hello! I've posted now too
Too busy with other runs prior to Harlow 10.. this will probably get busier nearer the time