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Last night did my planned hour long run (7-8 miles) but at a harder pace than planned - for the first time in a long time I was running almost pain free (but I'm feeling it a bit today! - must be careful).
Today: Probably cross train in (home) gym; 20 minutes bike, 20 minutes row.
Why: Cross training really seems to be working.
Days since rest: 5
Days since hard: 4 (Long run)
Oh yes and treated myself to a new pair of 2070's which should be nicely broken in by marathon (6 weeks on Sunday)
Today: Probably cross train in (home) gym; 20 minutes bike, 20 minutes row.
Why: Cross training really seems to be working.
Days since rest: 5
Days since hard: 4 (Long run)
Oh yes and treated myself to a new pair of 2070's which should be nicely broken in by marathon (6 weeks on Sunday)
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What: swim, 30 mins of frontcrawl
Why: cos it's an easy/rest day, the sun is shining, the sky is blue and the outdoor pool will be open
Last hard day: yesterday
Last rest day: sunday
What: Gardening and gym session with possibly treadmill session but might swap that for cross trainer for 30mins. Give the knee a break. It's not sore but I'm thinking I shouldn't push it.
Why: Easy day yesterday and garden needs weeding and sorting.
Last Hard Day: Monday
Last Rest Day: Tuesday
What: 3-ish miles with 5 x 2 minute intervals and 2 minute recoveries.
Why: There's always the desire to get faster ...
Last hard: Yesterday's tempo run.
Last rest: Monday.
Back to back hard days? Tsk! Tsk!
why - working away from home and will be driving until late both days
last hard sun
last rest today
Martin I bought some 2070's 2 to 3 months ago. After Brooks Beast's they feel really light and flexible but I like them.
Speedwork does seem to work, doesn't it?! I'm fairly new at this but it has already made a difference.
Martin's right though, you need an easy day today.
RR
Ran twice in Boston, for 30min (Sunday), 20min (Monday) - awful heat (in the 30's) and high humidity and jet lag curbed enthusiasm.
Today's run: 4+m, 50ish minutes. I'm very happy with that. It's my new route, took the dog with who adapted well to the changes (she's an opinionated old thing), played about with the speed, and still got home thinking that I wouldn't have to spend quite all day in bed. And that's having flown home yesterday (after which I did spend all day in bed). I can see this replacing my 3m route without too much problem.
At the wedding tried dancing, rather sobering. I still have a way to go before my legs are quite like other peoples. I can either feel quite proud therefore, to be running as fast as I am, or rather silly, to be attempting to run "races" while hardly out of geriatric duck status.
On the whole, I'd rather feel proud than silly, so I will. But truth to tell, I think I feel a bizarre combination of both.
I'm not posting an exercise session today because I don't know what I'm going to do. After all that moaning about turning into a dishcloth yesterday, I had a migraine (my migraines, which are rare events, are pathetic little things compared to the overwhelming fatigue which always heralds them in, although it was interesting to note that none of the last few patients in my evening surgery was rude enough to comment on the fact that my right eye was half-closed and various muscles on that side of my face were flickering). A few hours later, I felt better than I had for a couple of days.
So I might be up for a long run later. Or I might not. We'll see.
Cheers, V-rap.
Yesterday didn't really feel very hard, and wasn't that far, so I'm afarid I'm still doing the speed session tonight! (I DID have a rest day on Monday). I'll do an easy session tomorrow, promise ...
Why: building speed endurance
last hard day: Monday
last proper rest day : last Wednesday
last non-run day: Saturday
Minkin - "spiking" is I believe the term for what you're doing. I'm sure I came across this in RW 2 or 3 years back. Favoured by some African athletes as a means of taking their performance to a higher level.
Must carry an element of risk, but as long as you feel reasonably fresh & you're not forcing yourself to do this run, I'd have thought it was minimal. Enjoy!
Why : midweek long(ish) run
Why: You're supposed to vary hard and easy day aren't you?
Toying with idea of Kendal 1/2 marathon on Monday. But the longest road run I;ve done in the last month is 9 miles.
Hope you don't often have to work with a migraine Vrap. Though with a twitching face you may have encouraged your patients not to spend too long describing their symptoms. As an efficiency drive it's to be commended.
Last nights long steady run turned in to a hard off-road 10k due to my normal training partners being away racing, so I went out with the clubs fast pack
What:
AM) Swim 1600m (4x400m Build Intervals)
Lunch) Swim 1200m (Drills)
PM) Turbo Trainer (30-60mins)
Why:
Woke up sharp so added a swim session and going to the chiropractor this afternoon so not enough time to go out to road bike.
Last Hard Day: Today
Last Hard Run: Tuesday
Last Rest Day: Sunday
Why: 15 miles last night (longest ever training run) has had quite an effect.
Planned to do 11 - 11.5 min miles, but did first 7.5 miles in 78 minutes. Met up with Mr Nessie and his mountain bike at half way. A colleague of his who is also doing Loch Ness had been passing by, and asked to join us as her running partner is on holiday. Unfortunatley she is a lot faster than me. Kept up with her pace (under 10 min miles) for about 2.5 miles, then had to slow right down. Last 2 miles were agony, but I really think that I could have run the whole way and more if I had stuck at an easier pace.
Had to take the lift this morning though! :-)
Last rest: Saturday
Last hard: Yesterday
Last hard day: yesterday
Last rest: Sun
Why: Be nice to me day
Last hard day: yesterday 7 mile hilly run
AM - 2300m swim
PM - 9 miles easy
Why: Midweek mid-distance run
Last hard day - Yesterday
Last Rest - Thursday
Why: Midweek bike session
Last hard run: Tuesday
Last rest day: Monday
Went fairly steady at the the club 9 mile fartlek run last night and consequently felt fairly fresh during todays ride, so managed a 20.2 mph average without killing myself.
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Why: to work on increasingly spindly-looking upper body, as I do a lot more lifting in the winter months (when running less) than in summer. My upper body muscles definition waxes and wanes, according to the season!
Last hard day: yesterday.
Last rest: Monday.
V-rap, sorry to hear you suffer migraine. Take care.
DC
Why: Can't manage the longer club circuit tonight and am way behind schedule for GSR
Last hard: Can't remember (all felt hard lately, been ill)
Last rest: Yesterday
Why: usually my scheduled night off and put off doing extra taekwon-do class because of mortifying incident with hair dye, lots of sweat and white tkd suit at last night's class...
Last rest day: Saturday
Last hard day: yesterday's class!
Whoops I really should be posting about running here, but tkd seems to be taking over my life at the moment...
Hope it comes out of the suit OK.
I'm sure we've got plenty of space aboard the forums for runners whose first-choice sport is something other than running. Does this mean that if you meet someone sinister up a dark alley you'll chop them in two instead of running away?
Will
What: 10 mile midweek recovery run.
Feeling ok once I got moving. Should have done easy 4m this morning but too hot to sleep last night & my legs were still doing efforts on the track.
Then backed All in one Banana cake, should lat me till the weekend.
Last hard: Yesterday
Last rest: 12 days ago.
As for chopping them up, I'm more likely to be able to scare them to death with any number of wierd grunts, shouts and kicks, before puffing away at 10kph!!!
I'm trying to weight the tkd and running as equally important, but doesn't always work out that way.
I ran much better than I could expect what with recovering from my bad chest, did the 4.3 miles in about 34mins, so I was on a real high afterwards and still am. Can't wait for next week, it can't come soon enough!