Today's Training

[IanDarkpeak]

Photos look good Ian!

Cheers. you need to come up with me next time...

[Mike T]

Ambleside - Loughrigg shoulder - Skelwith Bridge - Little Langdale - Elterwater - Loughrigg Top - Lily Tarn - Ambleside. 12 miles, 2,200 ft, 2.08.

The 3 Shires Inn is rather quieter than last saturday!

[shaunaneto]

24.22 miles with 5935ft of ascent from Peebles today. Not as many miles as I'd wanted, but it's still too warm for my liking and I was fighting a losing battle with hydration.

Which I'm now correcting.

With some Inveralmond Ossian Gold.

[spen]

18 miles with 3500ft around the roaches etc. Too warm, too much stress so heart rate was erratic. Wanted to do 28 but head was not in it

[MickTor]

Nice run yest. 12 miles 1500 ft Fox House to Stanage End and back over Carl Wark and Higger Tor. Hot! Hard work great views good fun.

[IainR]

Nice run yest. 12 miles 1500 ft Fox House to Stanage End and back over Carl Wark and Higger Tor. Hot! Hard work great views good fun.

m: am: 5 miles on my own. pm: 8.5 with the girls XC team
t: random track session as a test, 8 x 800, in 2:34 on average, 11.2 miles total
w: 9 miles on road and trails around ridley creek
t: 9.8 miles in ridley creek, 2 loops once on my own once with the team
f: am: steady 4. pm: 9.11 miles 6:50 pace last 5 all mid 6's.
s: am: watching high school XC meets trying to recruit for next season. pm: 16.25 miles, 6:22 pace, last 5 low 6's.
s: 12.2 steady pm: gym, stretching and rolling, core work, then a light swim and sauna.

Decent last proper week.. too much junk but some quality...

[Mike T]

Ambleside - Loughrigg shoulder - Skelwith Bridge - Little Langdale - Elterwater - Loughrigg Top - Lily Tarn - Ambleside. 12 miles, 2,200 ft, 2.09.

Same as last week - took a minute longer; then tea/cake at Rattle Gill - excellent as usual.

[MickTor]

Sat 2.5 miles 25 mins leafy trail.
Sun 12 miles 1200ft Fox house Carl Wark Higger Tor Stanage Edge to the end and back down over burbage edge. Gorgeous morning.
Winter is coming. Best get running.

[IainR]

Easy week..


M: 3.1 easy
T: 3.2 easy
W: treadmill 3 x 2 k at 5:50-5:30 pace.. 10 k total
T: 5 mile trail run sharpish
F: 4 mile road run steady
S: rest
S Chicago 2:36:45 perfect.. 1:18:31; 1:18:14 splits, 5:59 average pace, 2nd Brit.. 135th out of 45,000 cold breezy conditions, got in a group held on for dear life, stopped for a pee at mile 14 and put in a 5:40 pace section to regain the group and finished strong.. 5:50 pace last 2k.. Just amazed.. Didn't feel confident so ignored the watch and ran off how I felt..



http://www.strava.com/activities/206752251

[IainR]

Steady week.. 30 miles with only one run on Friday at anything like running pace.

Took the students to Princeton Invitational XC meet yesterday, huge meet with mainly Div1 NCAA runners.

As there was an open meet I raced with them.. my legs were sore and my first mile was too quick but I finished in 29:15, 5:50 pace.. and was 260th out of around 300+ runners.

It was an incredible standard, many runners sub 5 minute mileing over the quick but undulating course, the standard in US collegiate XC racing is mind blowing. In the championship race around 30 runners went sub 5 min mileing. Ours was for alumni or D1 runners who weren't in the main team so still lots running sub 26 for 5 miles.

Great fun to do, and the students ran well despite being at the back but we wanted to show them top class running and had warned them to get dispirited and just enjoy it. Pretty scary running in a pack of 100 runners, spikes flying..