Training Log Archive: bendover

Event: Kingston Breakfast Run
 

jogged out from home into kingston.

Kingston Breakfast Run

started with Dan and pacemaker Paulc, first 5 miles were a struggle, was feeling pretty negative about the whole thing and was just trying to hang on to the boys really. slipped about 10 metres behind them at the turn around, but this turned out to be a good thing as i was able to zone out for a couple of miles and things started to feel a bit more comfortable. at the halfway stage i decided to return to my pre race plan of picking up the pace to try and run 6.30/mile for the second half, this went ok up until around 13 miles, then at the turn around back into kingston i had to really focus to hold my pace and form - there was a strong headwind and a kind of semi hail storm. did ok, last 1/2 mile was hard and my legs were complaining, and finished fairly slow. was surprised to see Dan finish really close behind me, fair play, he must have really picked it up over the past two miles and its looking good for a sub 3hr marathon in 4 weeks time.

i guess i can be fairly happy with todays run, i don't think i got my pre-race quite right, i should know by now that i need 2.5hrs between eating and racing, and only really gave myself 1.5hrs. first 3 miles i felt a little heavy and bloated although this passed. didn't set the world on fire by any means, but i ran to plan and its another marker ticked off.

with warm up and warm down included, that's another 20 miler in the bag. last long run is next weekend then the taper begins.

C • Cheers bwtt 14

shuffled home like some kind of zombie.

ran 2 miles of the bushy parkrun at just above marathon pace with Simon and Roy from the stragglers, the the bulk of the SLOW boys were up ahead of me. Vince wasn't too far behind and ran 25secs quicker than his wimbledon PB, bloody good effort. warmed down with PaulC, Ed, HWW and Clelland for a bit. weather utterly fucking dogshit.

C • Park run 2

lecturing in bristol. long day.

box fresh shoes for stragglers club night. into richmond park with a biggish group of around 8, which eventually whittled down to 3 by the end; as always good to run with other people, brisker tempo at times and stuck in a couple of fastish miles as well.

Really psyched myself up for this session, 3x2 miles with 4 min rec. repeat session from 5 weeks ago and I wanted to push it and see if I could (a) run quicker and (b) hold my pace through the full session. Achieved both goals.

12.10 (6.05)
11.58 (5.59)
12.04 (6.02)

Happy.