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KC - if you are doing 16miler ~6:45pace in training then you should be breezing under 3hrs. Your mileage and frequency and therefore endurance is low. Easily fixed just run more often and put in a midweek medium long run. If you build up to 5 or 6 runs/week then the mileage will look after itself.
Gobi - nice one on the pass !
12M bagged for me earlier, so I must be a pass too.
Hi All
Been lurking around here for a good while.
A small question if I may:
I will be passing through London this week. Can anyone recommend a good running shop in the centre, where I can get some good advice on shoes etc.
Thanks
Gobi -- it took me a while to cotton on to what you did -- tremendous stuff.
Also very impressive mileage from you SL.
Welcome Kevin -- I set great store now by ensuring I do some near-, full- or slightly over-distance training runs. The last few miles of the marathon are (for me) the ones that make all the difference to the overall time -- they are were whole minutes are lost all too easily -- and I'd like to think that preparing for the full distance also reduces the agonies to endure there. Mind you, I still suffered rather in the last couple of miles of the VLM this year. Ironically though, I'm generally a low mileage kind of guy too.
Nothing to report here except totally unexpected DOMS in my calves -- was it from the unimpressive 4x0.5M reps on Sat or the hilly, modestly-paced, medium-long run on Sun? I'm mystified. Ah well, at least there must be some training effect to be had.
There is a small clump of running shops in Kensington High Street:
http://www.runnersneed.com/store-kensington/content/fcp-content
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=running+shop+south+kensington&ll=51.499416,-0.19747&spn=0.003383,0.006539&fb=1&gl=uk&hq=running+shop&hnear=South+Kensington,+Greater+London,+United+Kingdom&t=m&vpsrc=6&fll=51.499446,-0.196595&fspn=0.006766,0.013078&z=18
TR
I'm doing around 3 runs a week just now but struggling with plantar since Chester had limited my training, as well as 2 young kids!!!. My normal routine is 13/15miles on a Saturday with a few hills, 13/14 on a tues with my running club, then wotever i can get away with without pi$$ing the wife off
. My last long run was 15.5 undulating miles in 6.48's. I tend to start with a slower paced few miles then build on it from there.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/133631127
Maybe you youngsters can get away with it though
I'd told myself that I'd scale things back after Berlin and the GSR and build up again to Barcelona in the new year. Typically, I'm not really sure I've kept to that... Moved to Highbury and have enjoyed bumping into marders a few times running the canal/Victoria Park. Does anyone else here run that way?
November was a 200 mile month (despite a 5 day break visiting friends in Germany and overindulging rather too much). Overall average was 7 min miles, with some 16-18 mile runs thrown in there.
I've already clocked up 190 miles this month. Particularly pleased with a 20 miler last weekend split into progressive 10k sections of around 7mm, 6:30mm and 6mm). The fact that I picked up the pace so much in the last 10k in Berlin to finish at 2:51 has made me keen to get below 2:45 (maybe even pushing 2:41 or 2:42) for the next marathon.
On which note, other big news is that I've just found out I'm off on a secondment to Rome for 6 months in March. I was planning on Barcelona at the end of March but that's just after I move and the Rome marathon is a week earlier/a week after I move there so I'm now thinking I'll do that. I don't think it's as quick and there are 7k of cobbles but seems like the right move. Has anyone here run it before?
Hope all are well.
Lev
Good to see you popping back in Lev, definitely a prospect of a few minutes off that 2:51 by the look of it.
KC.. agree with the advice, runners have to land on the bottom of their feet one way or the other. Sort the problem out first so you can train pain free, you'll be glad of it.
Jools.. fingers crossed for crisp calm days, at the moment it looks like Friday might be a bit damp but otherwise ok. Changeable weather though.
Great stuff from SL & Mr Boat; seemingly in good nick already.
Nice early miles TR & Gobi, a good advert for the benefits of an alarm clock.
4.2m on the treadie early doors & 7m with the club tonight. I do believe it is warming up a touch.
Wardi - solid double there, very warm out today.
Lev - enjoy the secondment, nice to know you are still doing a bit.
Another 10.4 miles for me this morning, much smoother than yesterday so all good here. 93 miles in the last 6 days sounds like training to me.
Playing roller hockey this evening, this is my annual dust of the kit old boys match. Last year it hurt so tomorrow I expect to be sore. There will be no run tomorrow morning.
nice to see that Lev is still at it
10M more here too
Flippin quiet in here; better post some marathon training stuff.
Switched Tuesday and Wednesday's runs around to accomodate seeing some of my family tonight for my Birthday (46). So did 12.2mi followed by tonights LT session; 9mi with 4@ HM pace which came out at 6m/m into a noticable wind. Felt much easier than it did about 4 weeks ago so I think the fitness is improving. Interesting to see how it holds up as the mileage piles up....first taste of yule log tonight; birthday treat.
Aye, happy birthday indeed Mr Boat. Nice pace into the wind and I like the sound of that yule log!
Charlie.. glad to hear you are doing less of a dodgy Sri Lankan bowler impression when you're out for a run now! Hope the arm/shoulder keeps improving.
13m run home tonight, nice to be back in shorts and only one layer!
Wardi - still banging on the drum nicely, good man.
Turbo for me today, 90mins inc some higher cadence and bigger gear work.
I guess that Jools must be on her way by now, I'm sure she wouldnt have started too early seeing as she's a bit of a pit dweller !
Morning. No autumn marathon here so just gearing up for the annual `why do I do this when I'm not very good at it' attempt at a spring marathon. This year there is one in Hull two weeks before VLM so I thought I'd give it a whirl. Training should be fun, anyway. Nice to see the old familiar faces on here.
So the training has kicked off with 8/5, 20 miles along Bournemouth seafront / Poole Park / Sandbanks (blimey they're rich), 10, 12. All slow but they don't hand out medals for training paces in December.
Good to see Wardi up and operational and nailing the big mileage once more. I hope you crack the 3 next year, you deserve it as you're considerably more committed than me. I've opted for early retirement from marathon running due to total idleness.
Happy Birthday Mr Boat we share the same birthday except I'm now a V55.
Main reason I'm on is to wish jools all the best in her fund raising ultra. A great cause. I hope the body holds up to the punishment. I'll be following your progress with great interest on your blog.
Dull
Think I may have seen Jools this morning around 7.30am, I wasn't really with it so could have been mistaken.
Wardi - Some great training mate, chuffed for you.
MrB - Happy birthday and nice session.
9 this morning puts me on 55 for the week, I've got another xmas party tonight so god knows if I'll keep my streak going tomorrow or not.
BR.. good to see you dropping in, I knew you wouldn't be able to resist the Hull mara as it's your old stomping ground.
Dull.. 4 months on the bench in the summer has contributed no end to a renewed running appetite for me, hope you re-discover some sort of mojo.
Charlie.. shortest 'as the crow flies' commute is 12 miles for me. I prefer the last few miles along country lanes (instead of the cycle track alongside a noisy dual carriageway). This takes it up to 13m or longer if I want to. I get the bus to work & run home, just a question of having the right kit in the right places!
Good early work on the turbo TR.
Best wishes to Jools from me too, hope the wind is blowing the right way for her!
Hull marathon sounds good and should be a lot cooler than VLM, but who knows ?
SL - Jools running at 7:30am ? Cant have been ! Make sure you do a few morning miles to sweat that booze off.
went to see Arthur Christmas at the Cinema today, was quite a chuckle.