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9 for me. 7.17.
4 days off work after today for no particular reason than cramming them pre end of March hol year end.
Did my planned hill reps yesterday, 10 x 1/4 mile @ 11%. First time I have done this since the Everest month back in November. I have those sore glutes again though so the conditioning is quickly lost it seems! Need to do more hills ready for running up and down Scafell in June.
Club group ride on Zwift in the evening, it was easy effort but then we started to duke it out on the sprints and despite wanting to take it all easy I couldn't help myself
I'm also on leave this week for the sole purpose of using it up! I think it was one of those gvt suggestions rather than an edict...
When I booked this week, it was in the vain hope that we'd be allowed to travel!
Lunch run to follow today, then a social outing with the ancient Mr J tomorrow to look forward to
Sure you're right Bus, just advice on the holiday.
Hope feeling better now Reggie. Fit nurse eh? I had one for a g/f back in the mid 90's. Lost her to the Army Med Corps and a half Greek RAF Doctor. What can you do eh? Its like the plain Jane g/f of a new F1 driver. You can't compete
Good running all, good jabbing too. Got my booster next Weds at UCLH.
Did an interesting session Saturday - 4 x (200,600). 2 mins between reps and a whopping 5 mins between sets. Apparently it was from the world masters mile record holder. Obviously it's supposed to be an eyeballs out type thing. Averaged 31 for the 200's and about 1.47's for the 600's, 1.41 for the last one. Also met a very good runner doing a mammoth session, he saw the track on line and came over from Harpenden. He's at uni and a 3.45 1500m guy! Very swift. Warmed down with him too, good bloke.
16m Sunday, did 8x800m with spikes yesterday as got that Watford xc thing soon.
I'll have to come up with something vahuely decent to do over the bday now, as I'm not sure trotting a 9miler out around Wycombe each day, then lounging around all day will cut it.
ps mental hill reps. Seems just the sort of thing a man with your frequency of muscular tears should be doing
SG, I did these reps quite easy actually so I did apply a modicum of common sense. Back in November I did the same session with 24 reps :-). I will try and build up to that doing it once a week.
Holiday to burn, no dependents, why not run across the country or something? Maybe do a famous trail like the West Highland Way.
We'll see how it pans out.
Doing the run version of the John O groats - Land's end would be amazing.
But in reality I bet it'd be an absolutely shimmering world of pain and miserable.
I saw them offer it as an "experience" for about £7k.
I'm a cautious chap, and the "what if I bail after 1 day" aspect would be my fear
The answer from them would of course be that's fine, followed by a quick "No" to the next question....on refunds.
Noticed that run on Strava Reg & thought nice TriX training.
Smashing the reps Simon.
So a 4.5M recovery at lunch with my DofE student & home in time for the 6M loop. Midweek session called for so decided on 1M wu into 3x1M hard with 0.5M float between efforts. Miles came out as 6:28/7:48/5:59 😆
Not as erratic as it appears since 1st was undulating, 2nd was uphill all the way & 3rd was 90% DH. Effort was there so training benefit should be too.
SG - Coach did a John O Groats to Land End relay thing...few of them in a van. Can imagine they spent nearly 7k on beer...even back then!
Then stay somewhere and have an evening out each day?
But yeah, fanciful that one!
Jools - will consider those, but if I was going to do some long hoon, i was considering some sort of 40k or 40mile trek around the 4 running clubs I've been involved with, perhaps getting people from the clubs to join up. We'll see though, that's an ask.
10mile today.
Over to Marlow for the Winter hill type route.
7.19 pace, fairly firm today, much better than the drenched version the last time I was there!!
The two slowing bits were one stretch where they were cutting some trees down, so the diversion was some bumpy, lumpy tall grass section, and the climb up to the peak of the Hill. I took a different route to normal, which gets you quite high quite quick up a footpath, and then you have good views across the whole landscape, whereas you don't really on the more traditional climb.
On that one, you're too busy looking up, and it comes probably half a mile further on, so you miss out.
Pre-lunchtime run with Bus over the hills from Lane End, down to Fingest and Turville and back up round the aback of Frieth. Lots of Easter dinners on legs.
Very nice route by the way - thanks!
Just wish this bloody hamstring would do one!
Good to see HR boosting morale in these testing times PMJ😆
Only 275m from my March nEverest now.
Anyone watching the GB marathon trials? I love watching big domestic races.
8 miles yesterday @ 7:22, HR averaged in the recovery zone so I think there's some decent fitness building. Getting under 1000 beats per mile is always a good sign for me and I was at 1,019 yesterday. If I run faster the economy gets better so probably under 1,000 if I ran sub 7 pace.
Mine aren't too insane at the moment, 17.01 5k, 35.20 10k, 1.18 half. Doubt I'd hit any of those tomorrow, but hopefully not beyond me all in...
But other times they are truly madcap
When I was at my aerobic peak in 2018 I'd regularly be in the high 900s for a parkrun. I hit 1003 for yesterday's 5K TT however it included 3 off watch static recoveries between wu & TT, halfway through TT & then between the end & cd. I've been around 1040-1050 on my tempo runs.
I listened to a 2012 BBC world service show yesterday in which Chrissie Wellington did a stint on the TM at 15 kph - her average HR was 125 which would mean her beats per mile was 800!
Summitted Everest again on a rare early morning run today. A day earlier than last month but 2 days behind January. I may have to reduce the climbing for April though since it's hardly relevant to performance in a flat marathon
Roughly thought 1.18 seemed sensible, after 1.20s for 600s at 5k the week before.
Got out reasonably early despite having a day off work, just to make sure no-one had the track for any particular reason.
Thought i'd "ease" into the reps, and the first rep felt pretty comfy
1.13xx
The wind seemed to increase from lap 2, and reality kicked in, so it panned out
1.13, 3x1.16, 1.17, 2x1.16, 1.18, 1.17, 2x1.18, 1.17
Full disclaimer as always - split 10 I managed to bungle and take late as 1.20, but i'm sure 1.18 is a fair estimate of how it went
Felt decently hard midway, probably due to the keen start, and especially as the windy bit kicked in with 120metres to go, and therefore I was down on my haunches for a chunk of the recovery late on
However, that lot average out comfortably to 1.17 probably mid 1.16s, which is ahead of the estimate, so a decent effort.
Rounded the body of work up to 8miles with a local loop after, and then the second I got in the car it started heavily raining. Just as well. A bit of windiness on the reps is one thing, but mix in rain, especially heavy and it would have been a world of pain!
Interesting to hear how close to reality yours are SG. Solid track session
You'd have to transition between HM & Marathon exceptionally well to move a 1.18 half to a 2.43 marathon!
But yeah, in the past I'm sure the shorter distances have come out ludicrously way ahead of lifetime pbs.
Tight for time, so hit the old 30 x 200 last night, averaged about 37's I think.
Allowed to carry over any amount of leave at ours (HR in the NHS), also sold a week of holiday, so that was a nice extra £500....Still not tempted to blow half of it on clown shoes
You're doing well to be able to sell holiday... a lot of companies are stopping that so they don't suddenly get a massive extra bill to pay!
Just watched bits and pieces of those Olympic trials. Looks hard work with only 12-15 of each gender in there. Splits out pretty quickly.
I love the way they were focusing on the front 3 in the men's race as if that was who the battle was, then the next shot, Chris Thompson was leading, from absolutely nowhere!!