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Lorenzo - great to hear from you. So did you and OO do the Bob Graham round in the afternoon
Ian - that's a real shame. Hope you find an alternative that actually goes ahead.
Couple of easier ones in the last couple of days to conserve energy for some decent walks.
Very happy with that as I had some elevation to deal with on each rep as well and I finished strong. The 90s recovery was probably too helpful so be interesting to see how I'd go with 60s. Given I'm half a stone over weight as well still, feeling positive about things now.
Easy 12 tomorrow for 37m week plus 3 pretty high intensity spin classes and the return of bodypump on Tuesday which I'm still aching from.
Beginning to feel like normal training.
Quite looking forward to tomorrow's 12m as at 9am it'll be dry, 10c and light breeze. Best conditions I'll have tried a long run in.
Where is everyone??
Sundays 12 was my favourite run post injury. 7.55mm for a very low 142 bpm average. Followed up with 4m recovery yesterday then an 8m hilly progression over lunch time. Pretty rough today after a heavy night and late one last night (unplanned I may add) so started at 8.4x and finished with a 6.35. Bodypump this evening.
I was away in the Lakes for a week and apart from my long run with Lorenzo I did a freedom parkrun (19:30) and another long run for a 60 mile week. In spite of the decent mileage I seem to have gained some holiday timber and was on the track today to burn some fat, and felt in good shape.
Does seem quiet here lately.....
Not much going on here,hit 50m last week,seem to have lost a bit of enthusiasm since Boston went,need to get it back quickly before Elvington.
Ian - is that Oct 4th? You've put a lot of energy into chasing races which might be on or not, so no surprise, but its not a bad thing to mentally lose focus for a week or 2 now, you can then get back to it mentally for the last couple of weeks. You have a target marathon that was put on deliberately on a closed cct so should be ok now.
I just got the London marathon deferral email and booked my place for 2021. Anyone else in?
Funny though that taking it easy is now around 50 weeks and my highest average block before this was 40 miles or so.
It would be incredible none the less in a year of Covid and virtually no races if I set a new record above 2551 for running in 2020. So that's the target I guess....😁
Let's hope you get a PB marathon to remember in 2020.
I've stopped looking at this years mileage in the circs!
Had a decent week. Session today of 5 x 1m off 60s over lunchtime. Was on the streets so crossing roads and junctions etc so not ideal but came out 6.23, 6.19, 6.13, 6.13 and 6.23. The last mile looks like I was wrecked however the last 500m were on trail in a complete gps blackhole and I had a very old pair of vaporflys on which made the trail that bit harder.
Please session and progression from last Fridays 8 x 1k off 90s.
Off to physio shortly for some maintenance work. Getting quite tight in the back and in the left hand glute and hamstring so need some adjustments.
Im on for big miles too, its from not having anything to taper for and recover from. Even with slightly reduced miles and long runs for a while, the miles still total up.
Not sure on any target yet, was eyeing the Derby 10m, however it's far from settled it'll happen. Will just look for any old race I can for end of year I think.
Racing does definitely impinge mileage. If you race every 4/5 weeks and taper and recover properly it's a good 40m a month lost.
I had a quick check and my actual yearly high is 1809 so just 60 miles in 13 weeks to beat that,shows how much more I've ran than before.
I know you always have big miles,TR 😉
Progressed my long run to half mara distance today. Probably won't take it more than 14 until there's a purpose. Went out a bit later today and was a bit warmer than I've had last few weeks so a bit of a trudge by the end. 8.02mm pace for low 140s bpm.
The race now has it's licence so all good on that front.
I'll only hit around 1500 which if I do 1528, will be my third biggest ever.
Had a week off running due to an injury last weekend.
The cat was on the landing trying to rest and keep out of the way of our new puppy, so I lay on the stairs to give her some attention. I moved my arm and all my body weight went onto my lower rib cage and something popped. Bloody agony!
What a crap way to get injured! I've injured ribs like that before playing football, so I knew only rest would fix it and that an early comeback would be folly.
For once I did the right thing and was able to get a comeback 5 miler done on the trails at lunchtime today. What an idiot!!
Looking forward to the puppy growing up and running with him on the trails.
Ian, that looked like a cracking 20!
4m recovery yesterday morning, followed by spin at lunchtime then the coaching groups 'bums and tums' session last night. Easy 5m in a bit and bodypump later.
The parkrun announcement seems to have sparked mixed reviews. Given the difficulty in just getting races on with controlled numbers I simply don't see it. I think a lot of host venues/local authorities will refuse permission as that's generally the reason these races are being pulled last moment. I'm not sure the sudden appearance of 100s of runners taking over a public space will be welcomed.