This morning went for my speed session outside, Scheduled 5M ( inc6x300m, 200mjog)50 mins.
So I ran 25 min, did the speed work and then turn round. At 40 min: walk for 2min then run again until 54 min and finish the distance back home walking.
1- If I do the speed work at the beginning, would I be too tired to carry on running the rest of the session
2- If I do it at the end of the session, would I have enough energy left to do it properly.
3- carry on the way I did today
4- any other suggestion?( and yes I am planning to join a cluB)
Your opinion(s) will be very welcome, Thank you.
Sophie.
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If I am going for a speed work session I jog (and I mean jog) for about 10 to 15 mins then have a good stretch then jog again into my speedwork. At the end I jog again for 10 mins then stretch for a very long time (if I can find somewhere out of the weather then jog home.
Sorry cant help more but every one is different.
Its just a matter of practise to see how much your sessions are taking out of you.
If you can limit the session to exclusively speedwork with a warm up/warm down on each end then it should be fine as part of your training schedule.
Hope this helps a little
have you thought of joining a club...................oops, hahaha
i cant go fast
See training thread if you want sad truth-Pathetic
Sob
you will just give it some time, i am new at this too and so far i haven't done very well.never mind i am learning and maybe one day i will be better at it.
incline 2%, that must have been really hard .
Anyway should we have a speedwork thread every week? to put any comments, suggestions, ideas....?
Thank You for your comments,suggestions!
Sound like a good idea I didn't realise I could do that.Will do my speedwork in the morning and the distance in the evening. That sound more relaxing already! only focus on 1 thing at the time, less pressure.
Thanks again.
I sometimes do my speedwork on the treadmill and am lucky enough that my gym is about 1.25miles away.
I jog there (quite slowly) as a warm up, stretch,then do another 5 mins on the treadmill as further warm up before doing the reps.
(Today I've got 6*800 in about 3mins with 200m/1min recoveries)
Then I stretch again and jog the 1.25 miles home.Sometimes the run home is a struggle but the thought of a hot bath,mars bar and a cup of tea are all the encouragement I need!
If I do it outside,then I set the watch to 1,2 or 3 minute intervals and do a mile slow,followed by about 30 minutes worth of reps (fast/slow) followed by a mile slow jog home.
Seems to work ok for me....
I have thought about it before, try to combine a gym session and running( haven't thought about speedwork). I think my gym is further away than yours but the problem for me was to come back home. I don't want to run carrying a big bag, I thought I could leave a bag at the gym but I only got 1 coat.By the way I don't drive so when I go the gym , I go by bus.
Sound like a good idea tho.
I am agree with you good advice.
I am a newbie, never follow a schedule before! So when I printed the RW's one, I thought it was a bit hard, so I e-mailed them in december to ask them a few questions about it. I haven't heard from them yet.
My worries was to add speedwork on a longer run aswell as having an extra run. I thought that was a bit much but then what do i know about running?
I think that make more sense to separate the speed session and the run, just didn't know I could do it!
Where would i be without the forum????
You need to concentrate quite hard on those 1 minutes as they can seem like hard work at first. 12 is also a big number when you are on the fourth.
It will come with time. You will probably find you are doing about a 1/4 mile for each minute.
Ouch!, just read your other thread, I hope you get better soon!