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Club night and a ”hill” session.... well the hill was about 300 metres long and the entire session can’t really have topped 500ft in total.
8.5 miles of which 1.5 miles were hard effort.
Steady as she goes now until Long Mynd Valleys on Sunday and hopefully a pb!
Cold, clear and breezy for this evenings RATRun from Cavendish House Royal British Legion in Hartington. 8 miles and 1,200 feet around the Dove Valley, some of which was very moist underfoot!
A decent couple of pints of Marstons Pedigree back at the Legion afterwards.
Broke the 80 today with a 79:25, so pretty pleased with that. So off goes my entry for next week's Stan Bradshaw which will be my first race since July and I'll be happy just to complete nice and steady.Quote:
Originally Posted by Witton Park
Great stuff WP.
Managed 41 miles and 12,350ft this week..... including a tough race where I felt fairly good.
Similar next week, find a balance between some solid work and being ready to race again up next Sunday.
Had a run out at Cloud Nine today with 268 others over in Congleton. A nice race over varied terrain in cold, windy but sunny conditions. Managed to get round in 48th place and 1st MV60.
A nice way to celebrate St David's Day.
Have you ever done Tegg's Nose Llani? Good, fast race, and part of a country show/sheepdog trial, which is always fun... I did it a few years ago on a scorching day... always mean to go back, but a busy time of year for racing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Llani Boy
No Travs I have not got around to it.
As you say it is a busy time of year and we are spoiled for choice in the Peak District with numerous races every weekend and even midweek races can clash during the summer.
Club night tonight. Another cold evening.
Session was 16 x 400mtrs. Only did 10, and ran with a slower group than usual, just as a loosener after the weekend.
7 miles, of which 2.5 miles were some sort of reasonable effort.
5 days to the Cardingmill Canter and my 4-man fell team is still all in one piece! Watch out Mercia!
8km tour of Warley Woods. Alternate 400m hard and jog recovery. Hills were hard going - legs still recovering from LMVs and very wet underfoot.
Club night tonight. 8 x 1km off 1 minute rest. A good leg stretcher tonight, although didn't really get south of 19min/5km pace on the reps. Saving the legs.
10 miles, of which 5 miles were reasonable effort.
Incredibly my team for Sunday is still all in one piece... Could be unparalleled scenes where a team planned in advance actually makes it to a race without any dropouts... (that'll put the curse on it!)
A cold, still starlit evening for tonight's RATRun from The Waterloo, Biggin. 9 miles but only 800 feet across surprisingly firm fields and trail.The first run for months where feet were dry at the end!
Back at the Waterloo no chips available due to wine tasting evening so peanuts and crisps were washed down with Blonde Witch from Moorhouse's and Eros from Stancill.
Training Light this week. After a decent run last Sunday I went out Tuesday for 4 miles around Witton Park but felt a bit heavy legged.
Still feeling the same Wednesday so just decided to rest up for the Stan Bradshaw, the old Half Tour of Pendle, which I got around in one piece yesterday.
42 miles, 8100ft this week...
Next race is saturday, so have to be very careful this week...
Despite Sunday's race, managed to drag myself to club night, 25 minutes of Kenyan Hills up and down a very shallow slope. Managed to put in about 80% effort, but felt a bit of fatigue and strain from the weekend.
8.5 miles of which around 3.5 were reasonable effort.
Couple of easier days and then probably a rare rest day Friday, before Aran on Saturday.
Warley Woods again on the way home from work. 30 mins hill reps followed by 5k tempo run at 10k pace including hills
Post Stan Bradshaw legs were feeling it a bit.
Wednesday 3.14 miles / 28 minutes around Witton
Thursday 3.22 miles / 28:30 around Witton
Friday 3.73 Miles / 33:40 through Witton, Pleasington and back on Canal.
I'm due to go away to Fuerteventura for a week next weekend - with a little luck :D - so just trying to tick over until then.
Hopefully get a longer effort in on Sunday.
Whereabouts in Fuerteventura are you going WP....? Fabulous island, and great for running and cycling!
Finished another ten weeks off this morning... Averaged 33 miles and 8750ft per week. A bit down on usual, but has contained a pretty bad start to the year with family issues and a little bit of illness...
Felt much improved the past couple of weeks/races, and feeling stronger and raring to go each weekend..!
Sorry Travs missed this. I'm not going now. It was supposed to be 2 nights Costa Antigua, 3 nights Morra Jable and 3 nights Corralejo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Travs
For another time now.
I doubt the Crete in May is going to happen either.
I decided to rest up after Friday. The sore throat a clear sign I had something and whilst I felt fine knocking about at home, I did feel a little light-headed.
Throat settled down yesterday evening and no problem overnight so back out today with a gentle potter around Witton.
4 miles undulating / 39 minutes.
It's doing my head in at the moment working at home, wall to wall corona virus everywhere on TV and internet, so I think I'm going to try and get out every day, nice and steady, just to try and keep me sane.
Sorry to hear that WP. Corralejo is where I stayed, and whilst perhaps the most 'touristy' area, it is very pleasant, and the sand dunes are stunning and go on for miles. Also the hills/volcanos out the back of the resort are of moderate altitude, but are steep and very rough...
Not been down to Morro Jable but that area of the island does look stunning.
Club sessions closed down for the time being, so the first "virtual club session" carried out on a treadmill in the gym, following a session plan sent by our coach...
1 mile easy, then 10 x 1 minute on 1 minute off, then 2 miles easy.
To make it more specific i did the middle part of the session up maximum gradient. I don't really do enough of these real short efforts uphill, as there's not many climbs in fell races which take anywhere near as little as a minute! However it was a refreshing change for a session and i certainly felt the effort on the last few!
5.5 miles 1450ft
first potter around Billinge Woods since my ankle turn there in early Jan. It's still not great for those with glass ankles but I do like it as a peaceful and pleasant place to run.
5 miles, 725ft, 56 minutes
This weeks RATRun saw 6 of us enjoying a cool, dry and windless evening for a gentle 6 miles and 800 feet around Lathkill Dale from The Lathkil Hotel. Back at The Lathkil cheesy chips were washed down with BG Sips from The Blue Monkey Brewery and Hartington from Whim.
Nice to be normal!
did a short session this morning. approx 1 mile warm up, 8 x 500mtr reps, then approx 1 mile warm down. 5 miles total. Good to get out on a cool and windy morning.
Managed 30 miles and 5500ft this week.
Given the turmoil of club shutting down, gym closing, races cancelling, and treadmill shopping, I'm reasonably satisfied with those numbers. Hopefully increase the mileage this week but without a treadmill or access to hills until next weekend, I think the ascent figures are going to take a hit!
Only did one run over the weekend. 2 laps of a caravan site early morning. 2.2 miles in 19:50 with 223ft of climb so not so shabby for me.
But across Saturday, Sunday and today I've walked 32 miles with Mrs WP.
Run around the beach today, more folk there but everyone keeping their distance, took to running on the road to pass people on the way back, don’t care if they think I’m a weirdo, things have got serious, hopefully if everyone does the right thing we’ll see the back of this sooner
Still resting my calf, so just a 3 mile run with my 13 yr old son on the High Peak trail this evening. He usually swims 5 times a week and having "retired" from running 18 months ago I persuaded him to come for an easy run with me. We ended up doing 8 minute mile pace which was a little quicker than my calf wanted.
At the end he said "Dad,I really enjoyed that".
Result!
Mrs WP doesn't look like she'll be back at work any time soon. So my plans are now aligned to making the most of what we have.
3 hours, long walk out in the countryside from home and very quiet until we reached the last mile on the canal.
If we can get some long walks in, I might get her back running soon. She's fit enough but lost confidence following a fall and a few niggles.
9 mile, 1100ft, 3 hours.
Club session tonight... sent out to us to complete alone.
5mins hard, 1 min easy, 4, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 1,
Best i've felt since racing at Aran. Not the most taxing session in the world, but glad to work up a sweat on a lovely evening.
6 miles, of which almost 2.5 were decent effort.
Picking up a decent spec treadmill on thursday morning, and working from home for a couple of weeks absolute minimum (likely more), so double sessions all the way!
Repeated last night's 5,4,3,2,1 session, but round and round a football pitch. Vest weather tonight...!
4 miles on the flat(ish) road out of the village to Haddon Grove and back.
Avoiding running on hills, especially down, at the moment as part of the plan to get the calf sorted once and for all!
A quick 5k around my local roads. I remembered why I don't normally run on them.... Didn't help that I couldn't find my road shoes so ran in Speedcross.
Treadmill session, as usual pushed harder than first intended... with perhaps 20 mins of fairly sustained uphill running, in amongst the power-walking... 6 miles 2400ft.
10.5 miles and 5000ft on the treadmill.
Not fun, not pretty, and now it's garage-based rather than gym-based, there's nothing (and nobody!) to look at.
But it's hard work in fresh air, so should count myself lucky!
Repeated the midweek 5,4,3,2,1 session... but added a 6 minute effort on the front, and instead of minute rests, did 5 minute uphill power walks in between.
Really pushed hard today as did the session on treadmill... if i pass out/puke up, it doesn't really matter in the garage, but might raise a few eyebrows if that happened in the park these days!
Total of 46.5 miles and 12,000ft for the week.
A flatish 4 miles on the road with my son this evening out to Haddon Grove and back.
5 x 2mins, with 1 minute recovery. Did this as a hill session on the treadmill and knocked up 4 miles and 1950ft, including warm up/down.
Will probably repeat later in the week as a flat session.
1 hour progressive run, 8 miles. Was going significantly slower than 7:30/mile pace for at least half an hour... fairly flying the last 20mins.
A solid but unspectacular week... 48 miles 15,000ft... Hope to up the mileage a little over the next week.