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ASICS Super Six: Bridget (Sub-4:15)
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not to mention a mentor
Haven't checked on the other threads, but has anyone heard from the mentors?
Steve -the mentor, turned up on the sub-4 thread, but the mentee has been awol for days!
Odd!
the minute Bridget dissappears for her break...the mentor will probably turn up
Have agreat one bridget
She's been here already.
Oh, you mean the official mentor, not Debbo......
LOL
Bridget
it does depend on just how much you want this, i do remember very well in fact how you tackled other marathons,
others may not know you as well as i do, or even understand the marathon as much as we do, that comes with experience
phsycological thinking is good for relaxing and blocking out pain
Gloucester 3 lap FM & RH FM at water sports centre, at 20 miles going into a head wind, both of which you really went at like almighty hell
I've never forgiven you for beating us
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Congratulations, Sparkly, you sooooooooo deserve this. Take every bit of advice you can to be the speedy gonzales you can be and stun yourself with some great results. xxxx
Bridget
You have made an excellent start to the training. if you need any guidance until Bud arrives, let me know
Having spent a day with friends in Cornwall yesterday I set the alarm for 6.45, got my hi viz and head torch out and headed out into the fog of Dartmoor (on road). Yesterday's missed run was 4 or 5 miles at easy pace (10.54) whereas today's was a mile warm up, 2 miles brisk (9.20) and then a mile cool down. Having driven along the crowd to get here I knew it was definitely hilly in comparison to my usual routes so I intended to do the easy run.
As it turned out despite running a stiff headwind for the first 2 miles my average pace was 10.12 over the 4 miles so it probably averaged the same sort of pace as the brisk run but without getting right up to speed. Not bad with reduced visibility on an unfamiliar route though
For those who are interested the splits were 10.20, 10.31, 10.08, 09.52
I think I've earnt a full Dartmoor breakfast today
Bliddy good splits there, Bridget.
Happy 2011 everyone!
I've decided to stick (mostly) to the 4 hour schedule with paces adjusted to 4.15 target as the main difference between that and the 4.30 schedule is the length of the slow and easy sessions. Having done a tad over 1400 miles last year I don't think the distances are going to be an issue for me. That does however give me the option to make a session slightly shorter if needed without feeling guilty.
Today called for 3 or 4 easy miles or even a rest. As I was down to be Race Director for the MK parkrun I had decided to run the route afterwards. I then found myself awake at 6.30 after my most undisturbed night in ages so changed my mind and headed over to run before the parkrun instead. Basically did the 5K route but starting and finishing at my car stretched it to 3.34 miles at just under 11 mm.
I felt colder than on Dartmoor but wondered if that was due to the proximity of large areas of still frozen water.
Tomorrow's long run is 8 miles but is likely to extend to 9 in order to avoid walking a mile home!
Good luck USB will be keeping an eye on your progress have been lurking a bit.....
I have still to decide whether to do the VLM or defer to next year so am sort of starting the training and seeing how it goes.
Hoping you may inspire me to go for it.
USB
Happy new year - there isn't too much difference between the 4:00 and 4:15 schedule so it should be possible to mix the two.
From Alice's original post on this thread it looks like the idea is to merge the 4.00 and 4.30 in some way.
I'm enjoying the challenge of faster runs where it is down to me to make the pace as I'd got into the habit of relying on the club session to work on pace and just doing everything else at whatever seemed a reasonable pace on the day. Having said that I have spotted a session of 800m intervals in a couple of weeks which will be ideal to do alongside the club session as we have a 1KM footpath/cycleway marked out at 100m intervals.
Which 2 parkruns did you do BTW?
I would say it is better to do a similar session or slight variation to it ie 1000s instead of 800s and get company rather than to do the session on your own.
Parkruns I did were Bromley and Banstead - first time for Banstead but it was hour later than normal