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Thursday 5th April 2018 - Well, I know from experience
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Morning.
Lyrics - Well, I know from experience
Hope it went well at Barts and you made it to your race Wabo?
Cold start to the day here and lots more rain yesterday so I suspect there may be cold floods to navigate on my run this morning. RHR is down a couple of bpm so at least it's going in the right direction.
What: easy miles/maybe gym
Why: taper/time wasting
Last hard: training through the weather we've had/tapering
Last rest: 6/3
Lyrics - Well, I know from experience
Hope it went well at Barts and you made it to your race Wabo?
Cold start to the day here and lots more rain yesterday so I suspect there may be cold floods to navigate on my run this morning. RHR is down a couple of bpm so at least it's going in the right direction.
What: easy miles/maybe gym
Why: taper/time wasting
Last hard: training through the weather we've had/tapering
Last rest: 6/3
If you think you can or you think you can't you're probably right.
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What - easy run
Why - taper
last rest - 15/12
last hard - Tuesday
lyric - don't think so
LMH Glad to hear your RHR is lower this morning great news and it sure is cold 0 degrees here!
Dustin: Happy tapering are there going to be cakes in the tapering?
What 5.5 miles
Why: Body she said not so far today so I listened
Last hard: sleeping and getting out the door this morning.
Lyrics:I don't think so
Miles makes smiles.
Progression
I have stopped all my blood pressure meds and my running has taken off, feeling great. Even managed a 10 mile race in 61:55 on Sunday, my best run since about 2006. 10 years of meds and did I even need them?? Who knows!
Stirling Marathon on the 29th, looking forward to it, have managed 7 runs of 20+ miles in the build up so should be fine.
Very crisp morning here with about an inch of frozen snow, nice. Did 4 miles with club session planned later.
Yesterday's lyrics were Shake the Disease - another Depeche Mode track. You can tell they're one of my favourite bands. Hope you shook your taper niggles, LMH.
Fancied a break from the usual routine today and checked out the latest Fitness First branch that opened this week and is not too far from where I work. Very pleased there are spin classes back on offer. They stopped them in my home club when one bike after the other broke and weren't replaced. The new classes are on fancy high tech Watt bikes. 45 min of sweaty fun. Loved it. Wanted to swim afterwards but the pool heating doesn't work and it was freezing cold. I managed 10 lengths (it's just a 16m pool) and was shivering by then. But once they've fixed it this could become a regular thing I'd like to do.
There's something like 800 virtual classes on offer too but today's was with an actual instructor which was a good thing as I wouldn't have had a clue how to set up the bike. They've also got an indoor running track. 100m .... imagine that. Doing a 20 miler indoors on a 100m track
What: see above
Why: fancied a change
Last hard: getting warm again after that horribly cold pool
Last rest: 18/3
Lyrics: no
Nice to see you Donaldo and good to hear that your running is going well.
I like spin and agree the Watt bikes are really good chicksta, don't think I'd even have made it into the pool though! Not too sure of the benefits of a 100m track? I should have got yesterday's lyrics.
Typical taper madness here, aches and pains, some real, some no doubt imagined, worried about twisting my knee or falling over in the muddy bits and had an amazing run. It was so nice out, an ideal day for a long run - why does that always seem to happen when you can't?
xpost with Donaldo
Great to see you back on form and without meds. Blood pressure meds are just a money spinner for the pharmaceutical industry. There's been a few documentaries lately about lobbyists pushing for lower and lower BP numbers to be considered normal so overnight there are millions of new patients on the globe that need to take prescription drugs. Well done for ditching them
LMH: Always the same, isn't it? Especially with a spring marathon after a long and arduous winter. I'm glad I'm doing an autumn one. I think they'll use the track for parts of the circuit classes. Otherwise it doesn't seem to make sense to me.
Good to see you Don! Meant to message you to say well done on the 10 miler: saw the result when I was looking for one of the Alehouse guys who did it also. Soon be taper time for you too!
Looking forward to Emz and SC's reports, and hope Wabo makes the Assembly League in time, although Barts of course is rather more important!
What: probably a walk plus fitness suite
Why: daren't do more...again
Lyrics: no
Dustin, LMH, how has the training been? On course to meet your targets?
Sunday's 10k cancelled so entered local toughish 7 miler. 1st mile is uphill so that'll be slow before I work my way through the field :-) 2127 5k last night and no blip so really chuffed.
What: Rest
Why: Bala today
Last Hard: Tuesday's double
Last Rest: Today
Lyrics: Can't place