Self-indulgent training diary

Raced the Sale Sizzler 5km race tonight and did 19:10, so slightly slower than last time.

However, I met some people I'd not seen for ages after my Pensions exam yesterday and spent the whole day in the pub. 2 hours sleep is not ideal preparation, so fairly happy with the time.

I'm going to take the next one more seriously and see if I can get to about 18:45

Played 5 a side last Saturday and was tight after that. Only managed two 3 miles runs since then.

3.5 miles tonight. Felt a bit lethargic - forced myself to go out for a run and just took it easy (7:45 miling).

Did 5 miles off-road this morning around Sale Water Park. Got roped into doing a Steeplechase tomorrow so will be jogging round that

Last week.

Monday - Swim
Tuesday - Hard club run for 1:30...maybe 9 miles?
Friday - Winter Hill Reccy
Sunday - Same again, with different people, different weather and not quite as long.

7:30 hours on my feet, maybe 30 miles?

By wednesday my knees have packed up again.:(

It was going so well.:(

Did a Steeplechase for Alty yesterday - was 1 min faster than last time I did it at the start of July so definitely going in the right direction!

Bit tight today but not too bad - going to do a session down at Alty tomorrow.

Still tight today but went down to Alty and did 4x800m with 400m jog recovery.

Averaged 2:42 so was fairly happy with that.

Did a 5 mile recovery run today. The recovery wasn't from any running or anything - I've been in Cowes this week at the sailing and now I think I've got Wine Flu :D

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Originally Posted by TheHeathens

Did a session in John Leigh Park (Altrincham) last night:

4 sets of:

1x30s hill rep (2 min jog rec)
1x90s effort (2 min jog rec)
1x30s hill rep (2 min jog rec)
1x3:30 effort (4 min jog rec)

Only planned on doing the first two sets but felt really good and was doing well so decided to finish the session. I did the same session a couple of weeks back and I went about 40m further on the 90s efforts and 80m on the 3:30 efforts last night.

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Did this session again on Tuesday and got about 20m further on the 90s efforts and 40m further on the 3:30 efforts so it's coming along nicely!

Started structuring my training now for Hellrunner so introduced a gym session on Wednesday; haven't been to the gym since my lad was born in April so was very tight on Thursday and only managed a 2.75 mile recovery run.

Went out this morning for 8 miles (off road) -felt dreadful at the start so did it fairly steady but felt better as the run went on:

Mile 1 - 8:09
Mile 2 - 16:36 (8:27)
Mile 3 - 24:45 (8:09)
Mile 4 - 32:49 (8:04)
Mile 5 - 40:52 (8:03)
Mile 6 - 49:37 (8:45)
Mile 7 - 57:20 (7:43)
Mile 8 - 1:04.46 (7:26)

Did a 6.52 mile steady run today. Didn't hammer it but felt like I was running easily and flowing.

Mile 1 - 7:38
Mile 2 - 7:25 (15:03)
Mile 3 - 7:14 (22:17)
Mile 4 - 7:31 (29:48)
Mile 5 - 7:08 (36:56)
Mile 6 - 7:16 (44:12)
0.52 miles - 4:25 (8:03 pace)