Aye it's been a grand day, hours jog with dog on moors in the dark, only bats for company.
Aye it's been a grand day, hours jog with dog on moors in the dark, only bats for company.
Hills and Guinness!
2nd of the winter series road races, Since I'd pretty much been given the all clear from the Docs I decided to go for it and see where i was.
7.43 miles 1255ft in 51.09 on a stunning night. It's the hardest I've run for 8 weeks and I gave everything.
Don't you just love pain it's great:w00t::thumbup:
A trundle up and down Black Hill frommWessenden Head to iron out the kinks after G&BI on sat. 950 ft & a tad under 4 miles in 39:45.
40 lengths of the pool today followed by one hour splitting wood.
13.5 miles today in 1.59....oh I so wish I could go at this pace for the whole of the Kielder Marathon a week on Saturday! I mean 8.45-9.00 min mile ain't difficult!
That would give me a 3.50 ish result!
AS IF!!! :thunbdown:
It's a very undulating route, I ain't done that much training, and I always struggle after 15 miles....boo.....but ones gotta dream!!!
Only one who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -T.S.Eliot
Oh dear I got dragged into a middle distance group at Notts AC tonight against my better judgement. did 6x900m reps with a minute between each. Might do some good for those fast undulating sections of fell races such as longshaw!?
Two laps of village (4.5miles) one minute faster than last week plus 200 squats (50 & 60 & 90)
That marathon sounds gorgeous MG, although I suspect that on the whole it will be a flat 'un given that it seems to follow the lake side all the way.
I also looked at Steve Cram's training guide on the web site and liked his 10K to marathon time conversion formula. He reckons that on balance an 'elite' athlete will run a marathon at a pace 10% slower than their 10K pace. Taking a huge jump in imagination and assuming me to be an elite athlete for a second and adding in that I've also, amazingly, run the Leeds 10K this year in 44 minutes, that means that my marathon time = 44 x 4.2 x 1.1 = 3 hours 23 minutes. That sort of goes with my rough and ready marathon calculation that my likely time would be circa 1 hour less than it takes me to run the 3P (4:22 best race finish and more recently 4:18 best solo run finish). Absolutely no need to run a marathon now as I already know my time