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Wardi - the pollen is bad near us too at the moment. I had considered my unwellness last week to hayfever as suggested here but it was just a cold.
Aforementioned cold buggered off eventually (except for a lingering sore throat) but not before a terrible 17 miler long run on Saturday. Felt like the end of a marathon in last few miles.
Yesterday felt much better and got the miles in to cap off another 60 mile week. A couple more of those before the proper stuff starts again.
I must admit to having a bit of a motivational wobble over the weekend. So much spare time invested and for diminishing returns. My work is going to increase in intensity over second half of the year too so may well impact on me.
Wardi - Good to hear you enjoyed the northern edition of Endure. I did the Southern fairy leg back earlier in June as part of a (semi)competative 5-man team, it was a lot of fun but did me in! 9 laps (45miles) the first 4-5 were reasonable but the last 4 were progressively slower, not helped by very variable weather which turned parts of the course treacherously slippery... For my troubles I bagged 1st small mens team trophy and a pair of crocked legs for a good 3 weeks
It's rapidly coming up to 12 weeks to go until the Yorkshire marathon, better start thinking about some proper training again soon!
SJ - well done on toughing out the 17.
I dont run on anything but pavements and tarmac in training , so my legs groaned a bit at first today, but then felt ok and i ticked off 10m. Time to start training towards Abo now.
HR almost back to normal so my cold from end of last week seems to have passed.
29 July marks 12 weeks until 20 October (Abo/Yorkshire/Amsterdam)
Good session that SJ, i like 3min reps. So its about 15 weeks to Abo now, so that gives me a couple of ramp up weeks with plenty of time to get fitter. Harting trail 10m next race early Aug, followed by IoW 1/2 2 weeks later. Both contain trails and hills so not Abo fitness quantifiable, although ive done them both before and have a 2018 finish time for both to beat.
TR- I want to get Yorkshire training on the go, but I get the feelling it's going to take a few weeks to get up to speed. Just in a bit of 'meah' mood at the mo not helped by the high humidity. Did 12 this morning down to the seafront and back, the start was super sluggish so I inserted a few stridey/farleky pushes to try to gee up my legs, but with limited success. Going to spend the next few weeks nudging my mileage up with a few speed sessions/parkruns and hopefully be back in the game around the 29th....
Wardi - Endure sounded a good event! one to ear mark for the future I think
SJ - Good 3 min reps, glad to hear you've got back to it.
Been building back up to full training after Junes month of racing. Got a couple of good sessions in including 8 x 1k on the track at 5k pace. All reps came out at 3.30 which is probably my best ever session. Did 3 x 2k/1k last night as well building towards the 5000m track challenge at the end of July
I have skimmed back over the last month, but have probably missed a lot. Fingers crossed I can put illness/injury related sulky absences behind me now!
I'm in Derby Charlie - are you close?
Nice session Stevie - I keep the 20 milers up all year.
Close here this morning too Wardi.
Al - im sure you'll soon find the urge for marathon training again. You were correct in there bring some quick folks in NF Sunday.
Stevie - good mix of sessions there. If every 20 was a gruelling as the really hot one 10 days ago then I'd be overdoing it for sure. I did a block of 23 and 24 milers before Yeovil, so 20 now seems quite short. You have a point though so maybe i should skip a couple.
Charlie - good going on the 50k.
Jools - happy birthday, hope youvhave a better year running wise.
10m more here.
TR - I've been alternating 16-18 miles every Sunday to keep my hand in as I think I mentioned a few weeks ago. Not quite up to the mental investment of the 2hr30+ runs yet, they are coming though. The midweek 15's make we wince more. I have a couple of fixtures penciled in but will decide nearer the time
Stevie - good stuff recently with a lot of quality. Keep this going through the summer and Berlin will be special.
Jools - many congrats for another circumnavigation of the sun. Sorry to hear about the illness/ankle sprain. Hope you are one mend now.
CW - also spotted your 50k on Strava, glad to read it's prep for a longer race and not just an extended trading run as is your want
LMH - nothing wrong with a bit of consistency prior to a decent build-up.
10 here tonight in balmy conditions.
Bet Selbs is a happy boy tonight.
'me too' re the running mojo, but I am going to be at end of base training on Sunday. I would imagine my training will get to no more than 60 miles a week with a couple of peaks sneaking me into the high 70s moving forward.
CW - Sounds good; for your 100K run what will be the longest training run, asking for a friend?
Jools - Your due a slice of luck.
SJ - A bit of the same here, once your out and running its fine, its the getting out!
Just ticking over and aiming to have a 55 mile week this. Had a fantastic 6 mile run along the South West Coastal path around Portowan between work meetings y'day lunchtime. Glorious, plenty of technical trails and views over coves, beaches and the sea to die for.
OO - coastal path sounds great. Easy miles only here this week after Sundays blow out, nothing quicker rhan 8mm too.
10m more today. No MP or reps this week due to Sundays 10m, which counts as the weekly session.
Jools, sorry to hear of the continued setbacks. Welcome to the over 40s club. Now you too can be a veteran at London.
indeed TR, happy and v surprised i was! and indian mate decided to go up for 2nd day of the NZ game as thought woudl be tickets around, and he got in, but was not quite so happy about the decision to go in the end, i should have swapped with him. Likely we will get clobbered by England Sunday, but you never know! i managed to go to a couple of games as well, but this Sunday i will be running up and down Snowdon.
Only attempting the trail half marathon this year after the marathon spat me out last year. Under prepared again, no long runs since London marathon, but have ticked over at around 50 miles a week for a month or so. Did JPM corp challenge last week in my fastsest ever time (19:23 for 5.6km) so short speed seems OK, but running up a mountain is another matter. Back to marathon training after that as doing Berlin (like StevieWH it seems!) in September, but its going to be hard to fit in the right training with loads of family stuff on in next couple of months.
Top trail 10m that TR, you should go well come Abo.
Wardi - that 24 hour event sounded great.
SJ sounds like you are managing to keep the consistency up which is great.
Hope its onwards and upwards now Joolska
As it happens I got an email from the event organiser this morning saying it's likely that all of the people who have expressed an interest in running 100+ miles as a solo at next year's event are going to get a place. Reading solo places are balloted, but with a bias consideration to those who are aiming to break 100M in 24 hours, bit of a project for 2020 hopefully
Jools - Hope you can get back to regular training updates on here soon!
OO - SWCP envy! Did a week down there back in May, even attempted (but failed) to retake the fabled Wadebridge-Padstow Camel Trail Strava CR (still hold the CR in the other direction though
Club interval session last night, one workout for everyone from novices to top-end on the outside 3 lanes of our grass track. it was time-based, 3x(4min@10k/2min@5k/1min@mile - all off 1min active recovery), so everyone just started/stopped on the blow of the coach's whistle. Also the club junior section was doing intervals in lanes 1-3, so it was bit like being on a busy 6 lane motorway! I managed to get the pace faster with decreasing interval length, nothing spectacular but fairly solid. 9M in total inc WU/CD. This morning's 12M was highly pedestrian, although pleasent, plodding up the Itchen River Way & back from work.
Al - good one on the session, good that your club has a busy colts section.
Just a minimal box ticking 5m for me today, heavy legged after squats and deadlifts yday.
Completed my fixture entries for rhe rest of the year today, Harting trail 10, IoW 1/2, NF trail 1/2, Solent 1/2, Abo, Gosport 1/2. Exactly the same as last yr, so plenty of target times to beat.
TR - I'll be in for the Solent Half & should be out on course with the family support crew for Mrs Al_P at the NF HM... MIght do Gosport, but it's only 4 weeks after Yorkshire, so I suspect my legs will still be a bit shagged and I'll be taking some down time!