Today's Training

[mr brightside]

A dry, mild and headtorchless evening for last evenings RATRun from The Waterloo at Biggin. With all six of us having tired legs from last weekends Edale Skyline and Llanbedr-Blaenafon our gentle route took us along the Tissington Trail to Rivendale, across the 515 and a few fields, including a short trespass up to the TP at Hawks Low. Down to the road and up to Uppermoor Farm. Down to and along Cardlemere Lane, back across the 515, a short stretch of the Tissington Trail and back through the fields to Biggin.

A very enjoyable 7 miles and 680 feet in 1hr 2 min. Back in the Waterloo, proper homemade chips were washed down with a very good Otter Bitter 3.6% from the Otter Brewery in Devon.

You know one or two good boozers LB.

[gazb]

Good time Travs. It's a tough 3.15 miles that I know only too well!

[Travs]

69.5 miles this week which is very pleasing considering the hamstring issues.

An eventful week, with the low of injury and potentially having to miss a couple of weeks training... followed by the high of yesterday's race going about as well as i could have hoped for in the circumstances, and being able to continue with easy training.

The main news for me was making the team for the inter-counties... this has resulted in a drastic reshuffle of race commitments... so the Llangollen Fell Race and Yorkshire Three Peaks have all had to be sacrificed.... making way for a probable run at the National 12 Stage in a fortnight, followed by Inter Counties and Fairfield Horseshoe on consecutive weekends in May.

[Travs]

Club night last night and the session was a very sharp 500mtr, 1000mtr, 500mtr.

I elected to do the warmup, drills, and a steady run instead. Didn't want to subject my hamstring to what looked a very intense bit of quick running.

8 miles, on top of 7 easy miles AM.

Thursday is 400mtr reps on the track, which i hope to take part in to some degree, probably at about 75% pace.

[Travs]

Track session last night, 5 x 400mtrs, 5 x 60mtrs.

Started the 400's a little cautiously, but steadily pushed the effort each time as i got more confident that my hamstring was coping.

75, 74, 74, 73 ,72

11 miles for the session on top of 5 miles AM.

9.5 miles fairly hard this morning, plus a lot of hard work in the gym.

Hoping to pile the miles on over this weekend and possibly top out at 80+ miles for the week.

[Travs]

Last week somewhat fizzled out and finished on an unsatisfactory 69.5 miles.

Started this week with a vengeance and experimented with a triple day... just for something to do on the Bank Holiday, i don't plan to make a habit of it... apart from giving me a decent haul for a monday (16 miles) i don't think its something i'd pursue even if i had the time.

National Road Relay next saturday, still waiting to hear if i'm on a short leg (a little over 5km) or a long (5+ miles)

[Travs]

A quite grim evening. Torrential rain and a howling wind making it impossible at times to hold a lane on the track, let alone run quality reps.

However with a revitalised hamstring i was keen to get out there and give it my best shot, and 5 hardy souls made the session.

400m, 200m, 400m, 200m, 400m, 200m

78, 39, 78, 36, 76, 36

Given that last thrusday i was hitting 72secs for a 400 with reservations about my hamstring, then they are very slow times, but the conditions really were poor.... first bend i was getting blown either out to lane 2/3, or inside the track perimeter, and bottom bend and final straight felt more like running into the wind on a tough fell race.

10 miles for the session, on top of 5 quick miles AM. A solid start to the week with 31 miles down.

Running a short leg in a much-depleted team in the National 12 Stage on saturday, so at least i can have a good bash at beating my time from a couple of weeks ago in the Midlands.

[Travs]

National 12 Stage today.

Ran 19.08 which is 5 seconds quicker than a fortnight ago at the Midlands. TO be honest although it was another pb, i'd hoped for a bit better... went through 5km in 18:49, which considering the difficulty of the course, isn't bad going, and i might have a bash at a flat 5km time-trial next weekend if i'm feeling fresh.

A cracking 12 Stage as ever. Some stellar names scattered right across the race. First 3 teams all beat the course record.

1. Central AC (Stirling)
2. Highgate
3. Kent AC
4. Swansea
5. Tonbridge

Other clubs in/around the top 10-15, in no particular order..... Aldershot, Leeds, Hercules Wimbledon, Hallamshire, Morpeth, BRAT, Tipton, Cambridge, Thames Valley

[Mike T]

National 12 Stage today.

Ran 19.08 which is 5 seconds quicker than a fortnight ago at the Midlands. TO be honest although it was another pb, i'd hoped for a bit better... went through 5km in 18:49, which considering the difficulty of the course, isn't bad going, and i might have a bash at a flat 5km time-trial next weekend if i'm feeling fresh.

A cracking 12 Stage as ever. Some stellar names scattered right across the race. First 3 teams all beat the course record.

1. Central AC (Stirling)
2. Highgate
3. Kent AC
4. Swansea
5. Tonbridge

Other clubs in/around the top 10-15, in no particular order..... Aldershot, Leeds, Hercules Wimbledon, Hallamshire, Morpeth, BRAT, Tipton, Cambridge, Thames Valley

Well done Travs.

I went sub 40 minutes - just - for 10k twice, but never managed sub 20 minutes for just 5k.

Relays - I can remember being overtaken by some chaps who were going SO fast.

[Travs]

Well done Travs.

I went sub 40 minutes - just - for 10k twice, but never managed sub 20 minutes for just 5k.

Relays - I can remember being overtaken by some chaps who were going SO fast.

I am the opposite... my pb times get comparatively worse as i go up the distances...

My 1500mtr time (4:45) points to me being potentially better at 5km than my current pb (18:14) suggests, and my 10km pb is less impressive again at 39mins dead.