What: a steady run around 7 miles - although might make it easier!
Why: Schedule
Last hard: well yesterday's speed was pretty hard
Last easy: Rest on Wednesday
Feel teetering on the edge of illness - lemsips on the go. Also feel sick, but I have to run as this is the first time in months that I've not slept through my alarm!
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What: Swim + rest
Why : early symptoms of a cold.
Last hard : Thursday.
Last rest: Wednesday.
What: 4M steady - 44min, in fact. Got the better of gut trouble, but legs are disappointingly stiff. Still, they work. Relay on Sunday, so rest and eat now.
I find concentrating on lower back and butt makes a big difference in how efficiently I can run, hence how far, fast. Beyond just thinking about it when I run, anybody got any suggestions?
What: 2-3 miles steady on treadmill - plus abit of leg work and some abs
Why: Need to get session in early coz I'm going out tonight. Will need to do the same tomorrow coz I'll be watching Newcastle put Man Utd in there place tomorrow afternoon.
Anyway........
Last hard: Yesterday
Last rest: Monday
Glad to see you on the training thread again Stickless.
What: 8 mile tempo run (assuming it's an 'efficient' day).
Why: remembered I'm supposed to be trying to get a PB at Helsby.
Last hard: Mon
Last rest: yesterday - well, did 90% of my xmas shopping in 2.5 hrs so didn't need to run to wear a halo for the rest of the day.
Have a good weekend all, and best of luck to everybody racing.
What - Long run day today - 10ish miles
Why - Always do long run on Friday
Last hard - Tuesday
Last rest - Wednesday
WHAT – Swim 1800m
WHY – Feel I need an easy day
LAST HARD DAY – Yesterday (long hilly club run)
LAST REST DAY – Monday
Will
Only managed about 4 miles, felt dreadful - maybe there are times when you should listen to your body. Still, glad I did it!
What: nowt
Why: Always rest on Friday and my left hip is a little tight after yesterday
Last hard run: yesterday
Last rest day: today
what: 8 miles; target 52 mins
why: a standard I need to hit soon (like, now) if I really am going to hit my target of 84 mins at Helsby
last hard day: Tue
last rest day: Thu
last long day: Sun
Failed to achieve this mark last week. Would be seriously depressed if I failed again tonight.
What : Hmm not sure maybe 6 mile fartlek
Why : No speedwork whatsoever for the last two weeks
Last Hard : Last night club night was a fast 5miler
Last Rest : Wednesday
What: 5-6 tempo miles
Why: Yesterday's plan went to pot, so making up for it today.
Get well soon everyone who needs to.
What: 6km run during lunch break ( 12.30am as I work nights )wet, cold, and slippery.
Plus 2000m row for warm up and a 10km run on treadmill after work, sprintwork to music, two fast tracks followed by two recovery tracks and so on.
Why:Have lost out on a month due to flu and an injury to ankle, just testing out ankle.........holding up well.
Last Hard:Monday 14km run
Last Rest:Wednesday
All the best for the weekend......
What: Rest
Why: Blew away my mileage ration (and consecutive days ration) last night. The treadmill was just sitting there, begging me to use it. And felt 100% afterwards. No, actually more like 200%. Now I just need the willpower to resist racing on Sunday.....
Hard: Long ago
Rest: Tuesday
Why: Up until 2am with the work I took home last week, so I'm struggling to stay awake.
Never mind - I'm off next week (studying for exams the following week) so I'm planning to run most days to wake me up in the morning.
Last hard: Can't remember
Last rest: Yesterday, Wednesday, Tuesday.......
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Rest day yesterday (over indulged in alcohol all afternoon/evening) so today will be a hard session regardless..
What: 60 min run with middle 30-45 tempo pace
Why : Thursdays speedwork a day late
Last Rest : Yesterday
Last Hard : Wednesday
.........what a whinger.
Today: Hopefully five or so steady
Why: Maintenance mileage in the face of ridiculous workload
Last hard day: Work wise - everyday for the last two months, run wise - ages ago.
Last rest day: See previous comment
What: Nothing.
Why: It's Friday. Need to do a couple of long-ish runs over the weekend. For various reasons I've only been doing short (2.5 mile) runs for the past couple of weeks. Went on my 4-mile route last night and it nearly killed me. I normally manage it easily, so my endurance has obviously taken a bashing while I've been focussing on short, fast runs. To be fair it was supposed to be at 'recovery' pace but I think it was more like tempo pace ...
Last hard: Yesterday!
Last rest: Wednesday.
without being nosey but what do you do for a living? It seems as though your employers make you jump through hoops!
How do you take a short trip to Canada? :-)
Unfortunately as a client driven business that means responding at short notice and meeting (frustratingly and ludicrously short) deadlines.
By short I of course meant quick!
why: Because I enjoy the pain.
last hard: Monday, interval session on rower
last rest: Tuesday
Well this thread has proved its usefulness today, earlier on I was looking out of the window starting to find reasons to do 6 rather than 8 miles when I spotted Mike's thread and thought i couldn't then chicken out of my stated aim!
Which was to run 1 mile @ 9 min/mile warm up, 7 miles @ 8 min/mile target 1/2 marathon pace, total 65 mins.
Did it in 65.30 which is good enough for me with final 1/2 m uphill and the wind against me! Really pleased with how relaxed I felt, maybe the club torture sessions are paying off after all. <85% WHR> <88%of max> <who gives a t**s> depending on which school of HR training you belong to.
Now rewarding myself by eating 1/4 of a slab of ginger cake (yes that's right, a quarter!) and a pint of tea. Northern carbo reloading you know.
Happy weekend all.
Something else to remember tomorrow at Sainsburys.
Horrid weather here in Weymouth. Very high winds and hard rain.
Was going to do 10 miles with a 2x2 session in the middle-2 miles @ 10k pace, 5 mins rest then another 2 miles @ 10k pace. But beause of the weather changed plans and did 10 miles over a hilly course, running hard up the hills-a total of 7 hills of different distances and gradients.
Strong head wind for first 5 miles, nice coming back as I was literally lifted along. Splits demonstrate the winds force-39 mins outward, 35 mins return.
eh up lass, that be a reet 'ard seshun you dun thurr.
recun yuz deserve Parkin 'fter theet.
BTW you needs to reappear in the over 60's column, you've become quite a star with a reputation to defend in your absence ;-)
wot me today:
what : nought
why: ongoing Rest for hip/cold, latter improving , no sign of change to hip
last hard tack: sun
last rest: all week
will I restart sunday or monday???/
Been bust all day and did not get my planed swim in (
Suppose the extra rest day will do me well
Well
MartinH -- go on, take that time off, you know you want to! My hubby just discovered he has loads of vacation left to take and he's now off from 9 Dec to 13 Jan. Lucky so-and-so.
What: 5 mile Fartlek over XC course. (At least 8 "Max Effort" not less than 30secs.)
Why: Easy work day so home early and eventually fancied a "Bonus" run.
Last Hard: Today.
Last Rest: Monday
Next: Long slow on sunday.
This week's success: apart from envigorating Fartlek I only had 4 pints of "London Pride" this week!
Cheers all.