Kick In The Pants Please

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OK, it's week three of my marathon training programme and I've stalled. Big time.

This week's training programme reads:

Sunday - 10 miles
Monday - 5 miles or Rest
Tuesday - 6 miles
Wednesday - Speedwork

My actual training has been:

Sunday - 1 miles then aborted run due to headache

Monday - 5 minutes on treadmill but very tired and very bored

Tuesday - no run as got home late from work and had to throw tea down neck to be in time for Dress Rehearsal

Wednesday - 5 minutes on treadmill this morning before realising I needed to be in work early

Will someone please boot me up the arse and get me out tonight to do 4 miles, at least, please?

I'm doing a 10 mile race on Sunday and I'm starting to get worried.

Floosie

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i think you need a hug, not a kick
Consider this a taper
xx

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I love you Hipps. Really, I do.

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floosie

one week won't do you any harm. especially this early on in marathon training. as hipps says a taper for your 10 miler will be good. but make sure you start again next week.

KICK!!!!! (for next week)

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Floosie, I've had a rotten few weeks too due to flu. My longest run so far is a half marathon and on Monday I couldn't even run that far without my legs running out of steam. My training is starting in earnest now. We have plenty of time and we can do it.

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next week i will turn into
Evil Bitch Hippo

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which race are you doing on sunday floosie sue?

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Dartford 10. Nice and hilly(!).

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Floosie, I'm doing the Dartford 10 too.

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We might actually get to meet this time Andy. I'm No 17.

And be nice to the marshall at the bottom of the hill at mile 3 - she works with me.

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I'm not sure of my number, I'll have to check it and let you know.

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Floosie,

You can have a kick around dartford if you want it

But you already have a good base fitness level from all your running so I'#m sure that a carpy week won't hurt.

Bet even Paula gets carpy weeks

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I'm number 19. I'll keep an eye out for you.

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Thanks everyone for your support. If nothing else, you've shamed me into a run tonight - won't be able to face you all tomorrow if I don't.

Hope to see you Sunday, Andy. Look out for the unfit brunette bringing up the rear!

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So wanted to do the Dartford 10, being a local boy, but wimped out of this one due to lack of training. About to go out tonight for the first time in 7 weeks, been off the training due to illness. Thought Dartford wasn't the best event to attempt straight back from a lay-off. Oh well, there's always next year.....
Probably be spectating so I'll keep an eye out for both of you.

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Cheers LMS. Give us a wave.

Bit worried about the hills on this one, so support will be most welcome!

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good luck on sunday

i'm doing a 10 miler this weekend but a different one. looking forward to it now.

and today i really didn't want to go out and run (very cold and wet out there) but i went anyway and by 4-5 miles was totally full of the joys of spring (well winter really but you get what I'm saying)!

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Floosie, I'll do you a deal. I'll run four miles tonight if you do.

:-)

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Good luck with your runs everyone. Week three for me was going well until I woke up this morning with a really sore neck. I did quite a tough hill rep run yesterday, so either I have pulled something, or was sleeping the wrong way last night. Anyway, I elected today a rest day. Aiming for a short easy run tomorrow, then long run of the week on Friday(14/15 miles)

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I did it! In fact I did more than 4 miles. It was nearly 5 and included a hill that is a mile or so long. And it was great.

Thanks for all the support.

So Andy, did you keep your part of the deal??

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Well done Floosie. I did keep my side of the deal. Tonight I'm going to do a hilly 8 miles. Hopefully that should give me the confidence to face Sunday.

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I always have terrible trouble sticking with a programme - it's so easily knocked out by work/domestic stuff & once the routine's been broken it just knocks me off course a bit until I can myself back on track again (stop start stop start). I don't know if it'll help, but rather than trying to mould my life round a training programme, I try to mould the programme round my life which usually means adapting it to some extent so's I don't beat myself up if for some reason I don't do the sessions, s'long as I get the key sessions in somewhere along the line. Means the programme is kept pretty flexible & I usually have to allow a few more weeks than the programme states to complete it. This is prob something most people do already - just took me a while to click into it.

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Andy - Hmmm...not sure what to do tonight. I've got a speed session with PT tomorrow and I cycled into work today (7 miles) and will cycle home too. Any suggestions?

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Erratic - I try to do that too but find that I sometimes fall into the complacency trap "Oh I've got plenty of time, so I can have a rest day today....." Then suddenly, it's 6 weeks to the marathon!

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hee hee, tell me about it!

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well done!

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Floosie, I don't think you need to do too much tonight, especially if you're perhaps feeling a little demotivated. If you do something so you've kept up some consistancy (bearing in mind you've already cycled so that should add to your fitness.)





Mind you, I'm no expert.

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Andy - anyone who tells me to take it easy is an expert in my book. The start of the 4 and 6 milers are the same, so I'll see how I feel when I get to the decision point (left for 4, right for 6). But guess it will be a left turn.......

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I looked out for you Sue but I couldn't find you. How did you do? I mangaged a PB (1:21:35) so I'm happy.

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Well done Andy! I met Richard and he said you were on your way to a 1.20 time. Well done!

I managed about 1:40, which is only a couple of minutes slower than I did Cabbage Patch, which is completely flat and which I did at the height of training for NY. Yesterday was the furtherest I'd run since NY was was really chuffed with the time - given the hills!

Third time lucky to meet up? When's your next race?

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That's excellent, well done. Those hills were killers. I haven't entered any races in the near future yet but I'm going to enter the Roding Valley Half Marathon (29th Feb) today. Do you have any other races planned?