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Anyway tired now, think I am going to have an early night. Hopefully doing a hilly 6 miles tomorrow night.
night, tiny
remember in the fourth lane you will have run further than you think.
and you have plenty of time to start feeling a bit more confident about running faster, why not try a shorter distance of say 400 meters with a walking recovery before going again.
to run faster for longer, you first need to run slow for longer so the distance is dealt with - so to speak. Then you introduce little bits of speedwork, like hill reps, intervals up to a mile long. Some races from 10k up to 20 miles. what's your marathon PB now?
I think speed work comes with practice. When you do it again just push a little harder. Might not be able to keep it up the whole interval but it will get easier. May be try 100m with 100m recoveries. Also try walking the first part of your recoveries then build up again.
I got my acceptance on Monday so over the moon, did FLM last year and it was great.
Tonight is my first speed session at the track (yuk) 8x 400m with jog recovery and 800m m before and after as warm ups and down.
Last time i did speed work was on a tarck in the algarve 70 degrees and vest and shorts.
Oh the joy of winter training.
24 more days to Santa.
woof woof
Another graduate from last years run/walk thread :-)
Rest day for me, if you can call it that!!!
I have a rubbish tip for a house, 2 costumes to make for the weekend and I have to work this morning!!!
We opened our choccie advent calenders this morning tho :-)
Only did 3.5 miles this morning and it was rather slow, very, very cold and I find when running on frozen grass I slow down even more!!
ho ho ho
As its first Friday of the month I am racing a 3k tomorrow lunchtime. Hoping for a slightly better time than Novembers 3k which was a couple of seconds over 17 mins.
Good luck on the 3k Jane. I'd like to try one just to see how long I could keep a really fast pace up.
Shades - I haven't run a marathon yet, the most I have done is halfs and they are normally around the 2.30 mark and my fastest was at blackpool this year 2.26. Hopefully by following a proper schedule though I will improve on that time. I'm doing helsby 1/2 in Jan, blackpool 1/2 in Feb and probably liverpool 1/2 in March in prep for London. I also need to lose at least 1 stone.(she says eating a biscuit - oops!)
Good luck with that 3K tomorrow Jane, don't fancy that distance at all!:)
Love the pic JJ - are you doing a santa run?
see ya,tiny
If possible I would recomend also doing a 20 mile race roughly 4-6 weeks before your marathon. A race of this distance helps you to determine the marathon pace you should be doing on race day.
I too, need to lose a stone. Have finally started my winter training today and am trying to eat healthily and hope the mileage will take care of the rest!
No :-) it is the Santa suit I bought from my local fancy dress shop. I bought it for Jumper Jnrs Birthday party.
jj - yeah I think i read that, forgot, sorry
I am typing this with my little finger as I have spliced my thumb on a tin of corned beef and am trying to hold a tissue on it. Making corned beef hash for kids tea.
bye
tiny
Day one (again) hopefully on Saturday
Still nuffin in the post!!
You know yesterday I said I was going to give running a rest this week.
Ooops
Felt very fat so went out and did my 8 miler this afternoon. It turned out to be closer to 9 with the warm up cool down and a bit of a miscalculation in regards to the route. Unfortunately I missed breakfast so had to run it on 3 hastily eaten weetbix. Must have been burning fat as I didn't run out of energy. Just wolfed down scrambled eggs and wholemeal toast so I don't crash later.
Have fun all
JJ
well done on that 9miler JJ - eating is great after a good run isn't it. I did a hilly 6 miles last night in the fog - it was freezing!
by the way I am not making corned beef hash again, they can have it made with quorn then we can all eat it, and it comes in nice bags that don't cut fingers and thumbs!
see ya, tiny
tiny toes hope your finger is better soon.
Well I managed my 3k race and only 1sec faster than last time. My first mile was done at a better pace that last one but I faded badly at the end. Getting the pacing right is soo soo hard for these shorter races.
minniemoo hows the training going this week?
Shades have you started your huge mileage weeks yet?
Imelda I too have had nothing in the post.
I didn't run today - FAR too hungover from my work christmas meal last night!
Then NEXT WEEK I will whack up the mileage to 70, which will be a bit of jump from 8m last week!