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18 miles today with 8 @ MP effort. Watch battery is low so can't upload the session yet, but I think it was around 7:0x/m. The last few easy miles were hard going. Definitely need to build up more endurance after very little in the way of long runs in the last 12 months.
Off road today for 11 easy miles - very pleasant. Saw a bird that sounded similar to a skylark but not sure what it was!
Went for a lunchtime burn-up today in both pace and weather temperatures. Well into the mid-20s, very warm. Went for a 5 mile tempo which came out at 6.43 pace.
Happy with that in those conditions and a good pace to hit so early in the campaign.
Rest again until Saturday's LSR which is all planned with a mate.
GD - nice tempo run in the heat of the day. Plenty of pheasants and partridges here - think I've been watching too much Springwatch. Not the same since Bill Oddie left, but interesting to have it so local this year.
6 mile recovery run this morning.
Hoping to scrape 60 miles this week.
G-dawg, solid 10 and tempo there, so good early stats. Are you still furloughed?
Some solid consistency there, Gul. Vey good mixed pace long run this early on.
OO- Sorry to hear the track didn't go your way. Yes, we had a great time in the lakes, thanks.
I have had pretty sore quads most of this week from sundays hills, but seem to have settled now. 4m recovery Monday, 9m easy Tuesday and 5m yesterday at easy. Wednesday I took a lad out to pace him to sub 40, 10k which I thought would be a reasonable session post race and in the warmth. He crashed and burned and came in just under 42 so 10k and 6.44mm for me. Not ideal but with sore legs and it being quite warm and humid, HR wise it came out not much below mara effort.
I am off out lunchtime for sundays long run of 14m as I am out on the beers from 1pm tomorrow for Wales' opening Euro game. I think this could be a boozy week with a 5pm ko Wednesday and Sunday and England v Scotland Friday night so I have carefully slotted in my training around that. It's fallen quite nicely as I've completed a decent block of post-mara training and run 3 good races so a week or two of bodily abuse won't hurt too much before I embark on the Autumn cycle.
I am beginning to have my doubts about London if I am honest. They've not announced a reduced field like other majors or any other level of Covid safe plan and they really are going to have to make a call in 6 weeks. New cases are now growing exponentially and it would be hugely irresponsible for the Government to open things up further until we know how that translates into serious illness and more people have had 2 vaccine doses. Another month at least is needed and i'd rather do that than end up with it out of control again and full lockdown. Just my view.
For the England v Scotland game I'm going to bite the bullet and do a Gul by doing a long run before work next Friday as I won't feel like it after the football beers. It's also nice to shake the schedule up from time to time.
Yep, back at work now, have been for about 6 or 7 weeks now. Still home based so can get runs in easily.
Interesting thoughts on London. I tend to agree with you. This is the third time I've started training for the event, I'm in better shape now than the previous two campaign starts and I'm curious to see what level I could get to. Will be a shame if it's binned again, I really don't think I could be bothered to train for a virtual event. For me a PB can only be achieved in an actual race, the whole experience matters.
You and a few others really need to get a race of any sort in soon, just to get racing and see where you're at.
Just back from my 14. Clouded over just before I went out which took the edge right off though still drenched as a result of the humidity.
DT - yes, you could be right about London, but I hope not. No plan B here.
GD - enjoy the long run today - not sure you will next week!
8 easy miles with strides this morning. Spotted a fox today.
Met three friends as arranged after one mile and was already sweating buckets. We just tapped out the miles and I ended up with a lovely morning run with good chatting and 17 miles bagged.
Football and beer dominates the weekend now.
GD - no football or beer here yet, too busy laying a grid and gravel driveway - trying to be more eco-friendly and avoid any more concrete
6 easy miles today including picking up some stuff from Church for another garden service - a bit more weight training
Gul, good decision to ditch the concrete, but don’t build up too much weighty upper body muscle shifting all those tonnes of gravel
Looks like a warm one even up in the hills, best get out early. Good running everyone
Forgot to say 68 for the week.
5 mile recovery to bring 44 for the week.
Interesting first mile as the socialising from last night hammered its way out of my head. Ouch!
A good idea to get the 17 done yesterday G-D. You might have struggled today.
Good mileage for the week Gul. Remember to keep the strength training running specific!
Are you back running Poacher?
All those slow 10 milers should be good for the endurance OO. Shame about the track results but I'm sure there's a better day to come.
Wise to get the 14 miles in early DT.
I'm still confident of London going ahead at least for UK based runners. I'm pretty confident Berlin will also go ahead just worried they may not be allowing travel from the UK.
Long run today and the plan was to knock off the first 20 miler. I have been starting these runs at c. 4:30pm but that seemed suicidal today, so went for the early start (8am after a 6am breakfast). Quite refreshing for the first hour but then the heat arrived. Probably should have set off at 7am unfueled. Struggled a bit over the last 4 miles and pretty dehydrated at the end despite taking onboard 500ml of sports drink during the run. Still managed an average 7:49/m pace so not too bad and gives me 77 miles for the week.
Hit the 60 with slow 14 miler. A cloudy start here so conditions were fine.
Gul, is concrete now not eco friendly??
Good decision, SBD. Another solid week.for me the big gain from training in, is when it isn't hot eventually.
I had a good beer based day yesterday but felt OK today, other than the usual struggle generally with heat. Out at 10ish for an easy 6m to round off a 48m week. Then a day hiding away watching footy.
Moving training on from next week to more campaign level training ready for Bedford 20.
Jools - good end to the week. Some cyclists are considerate, like one I passed this morning, but others...
SBD - no idea how you run in that heat. Great miles.
DT - good luck with the build up to the Bedford 20. When is it? I guess the idea is that concrete is bad for drainage unlike gravel. Pales into insignificance though because we still have a petrol car.
10 miles this morning with 5 @ LT. Averaged around 6:45/m. Feels boiling out there already or at least I do!
Very odd Gul sounds like a watch issue...