Today's Training

[Travs]

A jaunt across to Church Stretton for more hill reps on the Lawley.

Last time i managed 4 reps between 8:39 - 8:45

I felt good warming up, but how would i fare in the heat... and carrying a litre of water.

8:21

This first rep felt surprisingly easy and i didn't feel that i had pushed too hard.

8:33
8:39

Suffering in the heat. Did i go too hard on the first one, or is it just the heat making things difficult.

8:37

Debating whether to even start the 4th rep, i threw everything i had at it, would have liked to take more than a couple of seconds off, but it was full effort as evidenced by my slump against the summit pole (much to the amusement of the walkers in attendance)

It was a sorry trudge indeed for the three miles back to the car, down off the Lawley, over Caradoc, and back into Stretton.

Average those reps out and its about 10 seconds quicker than last time, which i'm very pleased with considering the prevailing conditions.

11.5 miles.

[Travs]

Bread-and-butter 40 minute continuous treadmill hill session this morning.

Struggled a little compared to last time... got to about 30mins and had to have a few mins power-walking, before pulling myself together for a final 5mins back running up the full gradient.

Thats not to say it was a bad session... its bloody hard even on a good day...

10 miles for the session, and 3 miles easy this evening, brings the week to an end with 61.5 miles.

Next week is my last full week of traiing before the Welsh 1000.... so club night tuesday, treadmill hill reps thursday, and repeat this morning's session either saturday/sunday.

Welsh 1000 is less than a fortnight away... although i'm doing the short course, at (hopefully) very close to 2hrs, its still going to be a bit over-distance for me with what i'm currently training for.... that said i'm still very much hoping to challenge at the front of the overall race.