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TT.. nice MLR and a good mixed session today. 75m is a very decent week and pleasing that you can cope with it too.
Quite a strong breeze at the Parkrun so pleased to come away with another improvement, 21:57 two weeks ago down to 21:47 today. 5.6m in total with a w/u & w/d. I'm leaving it at that for today so my legs will hopefully be a bit fresher for a longer effort tomorrow.
TT - good numbers!
Wardi - Well done great to see the numbers come down - I love progress.
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Good to see you Toro, i remember you being chuffed with your run at Stubby 10k one time
10m here, legs werent too bad after ydays 21.
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TT - 12 weeks is a good chunk of time but sub 1:12:30 is no joke. I really don't believe you need to be that sharp to run a 2:40 but VLM must have their reasons.
Wardi - good job on the parkrun. Progress is as much as you can ask.
My week of virtually no running was justified by a nice weekend in the saddle with no achilles issues. Around 150 miles covered over 2 days with 8,000 feet of climbing. Focus switches to the running now but I may need to fall back on the cycling at times if the achilles flares. Incidentally had a couple of pints of Cotswold Cider last night which, although only 5%, definitely went to my head!
Toro.. good to see you dropping in again. I presume that's the Guam in the Western Pacific? FWIW I ran a hot 15 miler over here recently, 25-29 degrees. I did find a shady route but it was still pretty sweltering so I do sympathise!
TR.. that's a decent LR/MLR double on consecutive days. Is this the end of your turbo Sundays for the time being?
17.2m this morning, got a bit tired in the last 2-3m, probably due to the rising temps. Good to get it done though, 61m for the week.
Just browsing the curry menu now. 🌶🤪
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Wardi - top work on the 17. I deliberately ran today as i missed last weeks long run, so wanted to put an extra run into my long run legs. I would like to keep the turbo longer term, and include a 2ns session a week a ideally. Which might be something for after marathons.
Should be a Brighton fast start update this week, hopefully they've kept the bag drop for that start. As i havnt heard anything else since last weeks update which caused a lot of complaints.
Wardi - Good work on the PR. That is also the sound of experience, a curry and beer after a long run far better than a Saturday night curry and beer before Sunday long run. Twas a recipe for disaster and so it proved, 1st 10m av. 7.25 mm, 2nd 10m nearer 8.15mm for 7.51 mm overall. I will spare you the details.
TR - Nice one on the 10m after the LR. Dunno how you manage it.
TT - Great numbers indeed, 75m for the week and a 72.30 HM aim. Get in!
Joe - Good cycling mileage and climbing. Manchester is a great mara. My BIL/ SIL making their marathon debuts for the Oct 2021 version.
So LSR #2 banked for London to make it 71m for the week. Hopefully more of the same this week, with a few faster runs into the mix.
OO - great numbers and love the book idea! I've just read Al Alvarez's Pondlife and wish I could write a running diary in that style... but that's a bit like saying I wish I could write Daffodils!
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Will jog 5m later as well.
Needless to say I'm now struggling but I have just booked an appointment with a well credentialed specialist recommended to me at the high performance centre up here. It's pretty expensive but I can claim some cash back via health policy we have.
London are due to reveal the deferral plans at end of today. Keeping myself busy with other things but can feel the conditioning ebbing away.
Apologies for the self indulgent post. Nice to see you Toro, sounds like quite the experience. Great to read everyone is going along well and looking good for Autumn races.
I got 40 min of cycling in last night. Today I did an hour with 8 x 2min (3:40m/km) off 2min easy.
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TT - There's plenty of variety to your runs. Presumably it's rarely dull? Not sure about fast being slower than tempo though! I can see the logic re VLM but then I feel that there are quite a few of those half runners who aren't bothered about marathons so wouldn't take up the spots anyway. I could see a path to running a sub 2:40 marathon but I don't think there's any amount of effort or magic shoes that would get me to a sub 72:30 half.
Wardi / OO - good long runs and weekly totals. Keep it up!
First running in over a week later today. Meeting up with a member of the running club for a run for the first time. Praying that the achilles is fine as I've had no issues in the last week apart from the usual general tightness when I've been sat down for a while.
edit: having seen confirmation of this but apparently someone at my old running club has been told that the next London marathon will be October 2022 so looks like the idea it was going back to April has been shelved for another year. Frustratingly it doesn't affect the qualifying time. So the next London I could qualify for could feasibly be October 2023. Sigh.
On the plus side there's confirmation there of a return to the spring in 2023 which I'm pleased about...if they stick to it
OO - shame you are deferring, but for a much better reason. Newport looks a good event to me anyway.
Noted that vlm is staying in oct next yr, whilst its easier to find the training time Jan thru March, its better for performance to train through the summer for a cooler race day......sounds like this yrs vlm is going to have restrictions rumour of no on the day bag drop the same as Brighton.
Ill probably defer my Brighton place to April now, with no vlm in April.
10m home last night, 10m back agsin this morning inc 14x3min/30sec, the av pace for the 49mins of effort/30sec jog was the best i can remember on the commute route (it'd be better on the pancake flat elsewhere).
TR.. nice back to back 10 milers there, good speed this morning too.
OO.. shame you had to defer London but understandable with family stuff. You always seem to have a run of marathons lined up so I'm sure you will find another spring offering.
On balance I think I prefer training through the summer for an autumn marathon - more daylight & choice of routes. Though as TR said there seems to be less going on with holidays, gardens, social events etc in winter so I can understand why some prefer a spring marathon. My old bones don't seem to like very low temps these days either so I'm a bit biased!
10m today, breezy but a nice temperature.
Don't rule out having a quick half in your legs; I've taken over 22 minutes off since I started running (somewhere between 45-50 minutes if you look at the HM' I bowled up and ran before I started training). Training is cumulative.
TT - Boston has good reviews from what I've heard?
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Hopefully youre back on it TT
Hard to equate what youre doing Toro temperature wise.
10m home last night, need to run in tomorrow so i can ride my bike back as ive 10 days off, so ended up doing a rare run double today (5+10) first double for a few years.
11m tonight pretty easy as ran a 10K MP session yesterday, came out 6.26 and felt reasonably comfy, followed up by the real exercise session, bopping along to Rudimental at a very local music festival (300 metres from our house)! Win double-bonus.
TT - I won't rule it out. Especially as I haven't ever used the magic shoes so there could be some minutes in there.
Wardi - temp is quite nice atm but I would go for a bit more sunshine.
7.5 miles Tuesday at a middleish pace felt really tough...HR up at 160. So had yday as a rest day and went back at it today. Hoped for about 8 miles at half marathon pace. I managed 5 at 6:30 but legs felt trashed. HR was high but manageable but my thighs were so heavy. Wondering if my 2nd jab is having an impact, or could be the weekends cycling or could be the soil shoveling I've done this week.
Joe.. still some decent paces in amongst. Sometimes the running body has off colour days so I wouldn't worry too much.
OO.. nice training and very convenient having a festival at the bottom of your street!
TT.. is Europe an option? The usual suspects Seville, Barca, Paris etc.
8m yesterday, 10m today, used a club 5m race to try 5m @ just under MP which worked out ok. It seemed hotter and stickier tonight than it was during the day!
Joolska - sounds like a sensible decision. As you say, usually difficult to appreciate the scenery if you are chasing a time.
TT - In the midst of big mileage training I could see that but it's only my third run in the last 11 days so I assumed my body would be fresh enough to have a crack at that. My running has been so hit and miss the last 5 months I'm really tying to find out where I'm at so that I can run appropriately and enjoy the day. Good on you for getting out there and I'm glad it's helping mentally (and physically of course).
Great North Run number has arrived and i'm starting to get excited now. I know it won't be quite the usual event but it's my first big city race in probably 6 or 7 years. I never changed my initial predicted time of 1:20 so I probably have quite a racey pen. The elite women set off after me so I may see them come past at some point.