Training Log Archive: northernfeller

Longer route into church with light pack, felt OK but a bit tired from yesterday. Foot still not right, a bit worried about it.

Easy into church training session

Steady back from church

Did what I planned - easy 2 mile to Townley, tempo parkrun then easy 2 back. Ran the parkrun in 19:16, and whilst it wasn't 'easy', it really wasn't a push. That was very encouraging, and gave me pause for thought about the standard I'm at now. I'm hopeful that it could translate into a sub-38 10k, th logic being that (a) I'm coming off a very hard week physically, (b) I drank two beers and a double whisky last night, and (c) I'm 4-5 pounds heavier than I might be by then. It's only two 19 min 5ks back to back, got to be do-able.

Recovery run, early before a day on the roof again. Foot still sore in the AM. This week has been massive:
Sunday - 7.5 mile at AT
Monday - recovery
Tuesday - Intervals
Wednesday - Recovery
Thursday - Fartlek
Friday - recovery
Saturday - Aiming for easy jog to Townley, 20 min Parkrun (tempo) - easy jog back.

As well as this, I've done 3 days on roofing in the heat, very physical indeed.

Had to fit this in during a roofing day, and didn't sleep between 1 and 5 last night so actually really pleased. Foot noticeably better today.

Easy recovery around the loop, foot still hurting.

Did my intervals early this week because I'm going to be roofing from tomorrow onwards so need to get the tough stuff out of the way. I think the run to Burger's will have to count as my long run this week, which is fine as I gunned it so effort was high.

Anyway, intervals were really consistent which was great. Slightly slow on first one of set 1 and 3, but apart from that and the all-out final rep they were all pretty closely grouped. There was only light wind and no rain, and I ate a flapjack in the van on the way over which helped massively and gave me some fuel.

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The downside is that, compared with some other sessions a few weeks ago, namely one on 23rd March, this was pretty slow. My fastest set of intervals was averaging 1:17.6 per lap, this was 1:19.9. True, this was a 3 set session and that was 2 sets, but I still think the point remains, especially as the last set today took the average down, not up. It's a 2.3 second difference, which is a lot.

Possible reasons are low calorie diet recently, so not much in the glucose stores, my left foot has been painful recently (metertarsal I think, right on the outside of the foot above the arch), tiredness from the all-out effort on Sunday afternoon (I'd had a few very easy days before the session at end of March), or lastly it could be that I'm not pushing as hard because I'm pacing myself for a greater numer of reps. I can't see that I'm actually slower now than a few weeks ago, so there must be a reason. It's an easy week next week, so will wait until my next interval session and wear the HR strap to give some data to check against the fast session when I was also wearing the strap. At least that way I'll be able to see if there's actually a problem.

Easy recovery run with music on, was gonna do 2-3 miles but tagged on the extra because once I was out I thought I might as well. Went out with no specific route in mind and just rambled, which made a nice change.