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You always seem to have lots going on TT!
Are you thinking about entering Wrexham Joolska or not looking for a spring marathon?
Goal - Obviously Sub3 as that's where I'm posting.
Background - Football 4 times a week from the age of 13 up until 28 when I started running. I use that term loosely. I 'just' ran up until the age of about 33/34 after completing around 10 mara's all pretty badly apart from the odd success off no specific plan for it. My current PB is 3:31 at Brighton which came at the age of around 38 (I'm now 43) in the build up to Challenge Roth. I've been multi sporting from 34 until now. I was due to do an xtri in September in Spain and then that obviously got cancelled. I guess what I'm saying is I have years and years of multi sport fitness in me. I'm not that heavy. Currently around 79kg at 5 ft 11. My goal is to get to around 77kg and stop there because of my frame I'd probably look very odd and get ill a lot.
The point of this post - After my xtri event got cancelled I thought you know what I've invested so much time in my health for this race that I only want to do what I deem to be the pinacle in xtri going forward which is swissman or norseman. I'm not in next year which gives me a 'free' year to work on some things and just enjoy fitness. This... like a lot of morons like me on forums are thinking whether I can go sub 3 in Brighton next September off 9 months training.
I'm definitely a realist so my gut instinct is no and im under no illusion how hard this is or must be so I have two options really:
1 - I have Luxembourg 70.3 which was deferred from this year until next June 20th. Do I train flat out for this race (which will give me some speed for the HM section), take a week/2 weeks recovery and then build (running only using the Jack D method) to the marathon in September with no goal at all in mind and just get round in a reasonable time. I'd probably aim for something like 3:15-3:19.
2 - Forget about the tri (which im happy to do because of extra money involved and it's at an awkward holiday time) and go boobs out to try and achieve sub 3 using the Jack D method.
It'll be really interesting to hear some peoples view on this and I totally get everyone is different and takes different run loads etc. If I did go option 2 I'd probably urge on the side of caution and run 5 times a week, swim 2, and bike 1 with the latter parts just to keep all the body moving which I would see as a preventitive to injury rather than completeling one of the runs to just top up weekly mileage.
Apologies for the essay. Hope you're all good and I look forward to following this thread for the forseeable future.
SJ - Ah that's really annoying! We can add geographical factors now to the racing variables alongside shoes. Probably tough to be too positive today but you've got the marathon fitness now without the actual marathon damage in the legs. Could work out better in the long run, if you can keep the motivation going.
7 miles and strides today. Cracking day again, do love a bit of sunshine. Got a few "races" in December. One more 5k (perhaps with magic shoes), the club's 10k virtual run and Fleet virtual half. Plenty of motivation there to get me through to xmas. Thoughts are turning towards the longer stuff again but SJ's experience is a cautionary tale!
TT - You've had quite a time, glad its largely behind you.
Onwards and upwards for us all!
SJ.. gutted for you, I guess entering or organising anything in these troubled times is a risky venture. Hope you can keep positive as your training has got you into great shape. Just read today that Berlin aren't accepting qualifying times from Dorney!
LMH.. are you still managing to tick over?
LMH - are you entering Wrexham ?
Wardi - good for you, i was in the dark lanes with my new headtorch lighting the way.
Y I K - spend a bit of time running more and see where you get to, build it up slowly though. Esp as you'll need to get on the roafs more for a mara.
10m run commute home.
Wardi - just about. Physio says that I need to run every three days at least regardless of the pain at the start.
TR - not with the amount of running I can do at the minute.
Jools - agreed, well banked ,my 10m home last night was ~8.30 av but thats fine most days.
Whilst its going to only be a few degrees Sunday, the Goodwood forecast is showing sunny with 6mph winds, fckn sods law for you.
Nailed the timing again today. It's now raining but my 7 miler was in full on sunshine.
12x3min on turbo, legs knew i was pedalling but the engine will be none the wiser.
Joe.. good weather dodging! It looks very ropey up here for the next couple of days.
LMH.. better than nothing I suppose but still very frustrating.
Jools.. all part of the base even if it feels less than effortless, good 10m in the bag.
12.3m this morning, much gloomier/grey compared to yesterday but dry & light winds.
Based on it I've put a little 'plan' in place to increase 8% each week until I reach 40 miles ish. I'll let you know how I feel by the end of it. I think I can also manage to cross train and enjoy the other sports whilst doing so.
JH - welcome aboard, turbo is good for fitness, and for distances up to 1/2 mara is ok for your running. You can make great strides simply by running more as youve found.........i have a Brighton place (and vlm), i copped the worse day theyve had in 2019 with a seafront gale (i cop all the crap weather days)......im by Portsmouth, so would be a psin at rush hour esp with the current state of the m27.
LMH - sorry to hear you're still waiting to get fixed. It must be so frustrating for you.
TR - good on you with the donation.
Good to see folks getting out irrespective of the weather. I've been getting a bit in this week - body and head seem to be aligning finally (putting a lot of that down to the change of diet) so I followed up Monday's 8m jog with a 10/4 double, 11m easy (plus a light weights session), and then a 10/6 double yesterday which put me over 1,000 for the year finally. I'm in a very much 'keep it easy and make it up as I go along' phase to try rebuild volume and strength.
TT - if you keep putting weeks like this in then youll progress quickly.
12m for me today. Getting back there.
I can stick a lunch-time 13 in my mix, which probably makes this the biggest week of the year for me already (not a high bar - what I''ve done in 5 days is bigger than some of the months I put in this year; lol).
TR - You sound like you're right back in the game. The lack of miles must have been a shock for your body.
It's cold and it's wet. First wearing of the gloves for many many months. Good thing I picked up 2 new pairs from primark yesterday. Couple of short and snappy days followed by a quicker run today. It was a "tune-up" race day so the aim was to run a 3k sub 10 mins. I didn't feel good in the warm up but thought i'd give it a crack anyway. Ducked out after 2k (6:36). Felt pretty shoddy in the cool down as well and a bit light headed this afternoon so glad I did duck out early.
4.5m + 4m either side of chores today. Treadmill option taken this morning as the weather was abysmal! In other news the buckle broke on my Garmin 230 today. A replacement strap is on on order, in the meantime I've dug out my trusty and chunky old 310XT to see me through the next few days.
Joe - 2k is a decent blow out anyway. Wasnt just the not running for 2 wks, it was 2 weeks of not working, not walking the dog etc my body went on holiday.
Wardi - you could carry the gadget in yr pocket?
10m more took it easy (as ever) as my RHR has been a few beats high in the morning last couple of days, so migt have a cold coming.
5 runs (4×10, 1x12) and 2 turbos, i need to build towards including an mlr and long run in the 5 now.