Another late night. Kids sports day tomorrow, I hope it's a bean bag on the head race for the dads and not a sprint.
What - bean-bag-on-the-head dash or rest day
Why - It's been a long time since my last rest day and my legs are complaining.
Last rest - Last Tuesday
Last hard - yesterday
Does anyone else race the traffic when they run. I did a 3 mile time trial this morning along the A404 in peak rush hour time. I do this run quite often and make note of a car where I start and see if I can beat it into town, where I peel off for a slow jog home. I just wondered if this was normal behavior or am I just a runner with an unusual habit of racing rush hour traffic?
Have a great Friday.
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What: am 4 miles easy running, gym session, spinning session, 30 minutes swimming drills, pm 15 miles tempo cycling.
Why: Scheduled
Last hard: Wednesday
LAst rest: Tuesday
Cr@p week for running, done nothing since Monday. However, played football for 2 hours on Wed and Golf today, should try some reps on the par 3's and tempo on the par 5's!! Try to run tonight
Bod
No marathon pace run last night as no-one was up for it, so did a solid 9 mile club run instead.
So... 5 miles easy a.m., p.m. the famous marathon pace 8 mile run postponed from Monday, Tuesday and Thursday!
What: am - rest, pm 8M recovery run
Why: I need to recover, as I've a busy weekend
Last hard: Hills yesterday
Last rest: 7 days
What: 2.5 mile run
Why: Want to
Next Run: Sunday
Have a good day everyone.
What:absolutely nothing (forgotten what it was like to rest, feel fresh as a diasy now)
Why: tired and need to rest for tomorrow
Today:nothing again apart from nine holes of golf after work.
Tomorrow: first ever 30 miler!
PM-try and stay away from the traffic when I'm running cus of the pollution. Always race traffic when I'm on my bike though.
Well feeling a bit knackered today as talk of Barnsley's MP run last night inspired me to do one of my own. Was planning on 10M with middle 8M @ MP but set out on a hilly 12M route and did 10M at MP. I was breathing like an emphysematic donkey by the end but felt like a great workout. I always know I've done the right thing when I get home and my wife opens the door to give me a semi-pitifull, semi-"what have you done this time you idiot" glance. So....
What: Easy 6-7M this evening
Why: Hard/Easy/Hard/Easy
Last hard run: Last night
LAst rest day: Last Friday
What - a rather pathetic 7*800m at not much better than 10k pace with a 2.5 miles round trip to the track and back. All I had time for and can never really get this sort of session to work early mornings. Will try and get out again late tonight when Alison gets back from her club.
How long do you all rest for between 800m intervals and what sort of pace should I aim at (10k/5k/3k etc)?
Pizza Man - thats Madness!
today - pacey 10k run
have a good day everybody
Good luck MG on your first 30 miles, hope the weather stays kind for you!
popsider-I don't know about the others but I tend to do my 800m reps at 5k-10k pace with a 200m slow jog recovery about 2mins.
I did 800's last night and found myself getting quite bored. I think I need to find someone to do that session with.
What:am-4 miles easy recovery run. pm-6 miles steady
Why:marathon training
Last hard:yesterday
Last rest:Wednesdy
What: Cycle & short run
Why: I want to add more cycling to my shedule
Last Rest: Wed (from running), last proper rest day: Monday
Last Hard: Tuesday
Had a fabulous run last night - 4miles is cross country.
What:4 miles run with 2 killer hills involved
Why: marathon training and needed too do hill work my thighs are aching,when I first started running could not run this hill so felt very good about this morning.
Last hard Tuesday
Last rest:Yesterday
Miles makes smiles.
Progression
what: it should have been intervals but the track is busy so it will be something slow with fast bits in the middle.
good luck everybody racing this weekend.
Happy training/rest to those who are not.
That's it - did my last long run in preparation for Loch Ness yesterday. 22-miler on pace for a 4hr15 mara. Sadly, the marathon's still 12 weeks and 2 days away. I really ought to get myself a schedule!
Think I'll allow myself a one-day taper today.
Have fun. Even Matt - tough one!
Today - Swim
Last Rest - Last Saturday
Last Hard - 12 Minute Time trial at track last night. I did 2940m as it was very windy on the back straight and I was just running poorly.
No more running for me until the "Hilly" Stonehaven Half on Sunday.
PPB.
raced a bus thru Hoylake the other day (the last mile of my 10.3K on Tue I think). Ultimately there weren't enough pelicans on red or people waiting at stops for me to keep up.
what: probably a steady 9.3K, mid evening
why: Matthew has a junior cricket match this evening (start 17:30) at which I'll be required for something or other (umpiring probably). So no chance of getting out until later - by which time I'll be hungry & more tired. Oh well.....
last hard day: Wed
last rest day: Thu
last long day: Sun
Why: I realised that I haven't had one for a week.
MikeS, how come your distance are always so exact ie 9.3K. The nearest I get to being accurate is 5 ish miles.
cos in my last job I worked in local government, in an area which dealt with GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and so had access to digital maps at scales such as 1:1250.
It was easy enough to use the GIS technology with suitable digital maps of my various routes to get a pretty accurate estimate of my route lengths. Definitely more accurate than any map measuring tool commercially available.
In the last few months (& this shows how sad I am), I've taken to wheeling my bike along my various routes and counting the number of times the front wheel goes round (having previously measured its circumference). There hasn't yet been a measurement which disagreed with the digital map measurement by more than about 5 metres in a mile. (Excuse the mixing of units).
What: Early morning swim of over a mile. And run at lunchtime round sculpture park.
Got a triathlon on Sunday.
Only trouble would be the likely response from Mrs S once she found out how much they cost....
I've not been around c/o a bloody back injury which means I'll miss the Mansfield 1/2M entered this w-e. Just woke up with it after a steady six miler last week. Gentle stuff down the gym for me for the next ten days.
It's only been a few days and I'm missing the running already especially as it's cooled down.
Never mind, time to be sensible.