Today's Training

[Travs]

Club night tonight. After xc and the Roaches at the weekend, I'd considered giving it a miss, but thought I'd give it my all and then keep it steady for the rest of the week.

4 x 200m, 4 x 400m, 4 x 200m, all off 90secs rest.

5 mins rest.

Repeat session again with 60secs rest.

After starting steadily, I felt pretty decent. Was running well up to the 2nd 400m on the 2nd set, and halfway through the rep I just lost it and couldn't push it any more. Lost about 300 metres over the remainder of the session to the guy I was shadowing (a guy I'd usually be ahead of anyway). I knew things were looking bleak, as I was struggling to cover the 100 metres "active recovery" (I.e a walk/jog) in the allotted 60secs recovery time!

So definitely need to keep it steady before the Wrekin Wrecker on Sunday, a very tough outing which needs fresh legs if I'm to be getting a pb.

7.5 miles today, of which about 3 miles can be considered good hard effort.

[Travs]

9.5 miles around the roads of south-west Cov. Generally took it steady, after tuesday's debacle, and the Wrekin Wrecker looming on Sunday.

Pushed on a bit in the second half, but never really stressed myself at all tonight. Will put in a decent hill session tomorrow, then all guns blazing for Sunday.

[ba-ba]

Stag do in Edinburgh. Naked royal mile at 3am this morning. One off the bucket list.

[Derby Tup]

Strava?

[ba-ba]

https://www.strava.com/activities/1972798336

[anthonykay]

https://www.strava.com/activities/1972798336

That's fast, even allowing for it being downhill. The advantages of not being weighed down with clothing.

[ba-ba]

...and it only being 1.5km

[brett]

Were you wearing a buff?

[Travs]

A steady start to the week, no club session tonight, as felt a little worn down from the hectic recent racing schedule. So kept it steady so far this week (although done 5000ft climb already and it's only Tuesday!)

Really having to think about not wearing myself down in training between now and xmas, as got to run two legs in the Lee Mill Relay on Sunday, then two ultras in December (Cheviot Goat & Tour de Helvellyn).

I don't use any strava etc to record my training, preferring good old pen and paper, and record my mileage and climb in ten week blocks. Over the last ten weeks averaged 39.5 miles and 10500ft. Which means I've now got 20 solid weeks of my target of approx 40 miles/10000ft (it would be 30 solid weeks but for a bit of a slowdown earlier in the year due to various niggles). Hopefully a good base to build on, as got some interesting long-distance targets for next year (at the moment the BGR is not one of them, it just doesn't massively appeal to me at the moment, although I'm sure at one point in the future I'll give it a go). Currently looking at a solo bash at the Leventon Line in May, and Tenerife in June for the Bluetrail Ultra. Also looking at something potentially early August but I'll keep that under my hat for now.

It is quite a challenge to stay rested and fresh-legged enough for the XC and shorter Fell races, whilst still getting the weekly mileage in to give me a base for longer distance challenges.

[spen]

Do you really manage to get that much ascent in on a treadmill ?