Just seen the results - 19:01. My fastest 5km since 2002 (3 races) but a little gutted not to have gone sub 19 now!
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Just seen the results - 19:01. My fastest 5km since 2002 (3 races) but a little gutted not to have gone sub 19 now!
Did 6 miles off-road this morning. Nothing too fast - 47:29 but quite a lot of climbing.
I hope you dont mind...but im entering my very own Self-indulgent training diary here.
This week has been the highest weekly milage i have ever done!:eek:
9 miles for the skiddaw race on sunday, 7-8 miles on tuesday with the club up and around Darwen Tower and then 12 miles with Derby Tup in the lakes.
My previous weekly highest was 21 miles set back in October!
Great stuff Al - keep it up!
Nice one Al, but keep it steady. 0-29 is a big leap to take suddenly, especially if you're hamering the club training.
And see I'm not that kantunkrous :mad: (I don't bloody believe it, etc, etc)
Did my furthest training run for 7 (:eek:) years today - a massive (:rolleyes:) 10 miles!
Felt quite good and ran round in 1:18.33. My Garmin went a bit haywire (saying I had run 12.18 miles) but measured route on Memory Maps and it's exactly 16km, which is close enough to 10 miles for me!
Sped up quite a lot in the second half of the run despite most of it being uphill and off-road. Feel like my fitness is coming back, feel confident and want to build on that now.
7 x 650m on grass today with 90s jog recovery.
Did the session with 4/5 people who were at least a minute quicker than me last Thursday at the 5km so was a good yardstick. Managed to stick with them on the first 6 but died badly on the last one.
Feel quite good though - just got a lot of work to do.
Did 6 x 830m on grass on Saturday morning. Had a day off yesterday but planning on doing a run this evening.
Did the same run tonight as a steady run and felt really good. Mile splits are in red above so was a fair bit faster tonight without really trying.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheHeathens
Doing 2 interval sessions a week is definitely helping and the weight is starting to drop off now (gone from 84kg to 79kg). Next race is the Sale Sizzler on 6th August - aiming for below 18:40 (did 19:01 last time) assuming everything goes well.
Did a fairly easy session - 5 x 640m on grass with 90s recovery.
Treated them more as striders to be honest as was tired from last night and legs a bit weary.