Self-indulgent training diary

[TheHeathens]

Did a track session tonight:

1200m - 4:01
800m - 2:31
600m - 1:51
400m - 71s
200m - 30s

Happy with that - had a bit of a wobble on the 400m but feel that my fitness is coming back now.

[TheHeathens]

4 miles today in 27:37.

Did this in 27:52 tonight but back was hurting loads afterwards.

[TheHeathens]

Did a session of 4x830m on grass (~2:50) on Saturday morning and a 4 mile recovery run this evening

[TheHeathens]

6 x 640m on wet grass tonight

2:12
2:11
2:08
2:07
2:07
2:04

Did that session a while back and was struggling to break 2:12 on any of them so pretty chuffed with that.

[Ady In Accy]

Are you not running up any fells Heathens??

[TheHeathens]

Are you not running up any fells Heathens??

No can do at moment. The reason I gave up in the first place was because of a dodgy back aggravated when running up steep hills.

Ran up Cat Bells from Stair last year and my back just went into spasm for a week; I may try again once I've lost another stone in weight but I don't want anything to set me back for my hellrunner training.

[TheHeathens]

10km fast run on the roads today (although fairly hilly!). Did 42 mins exactly:

Mile splits are:

6:58
13:50 (6:53)
20:42 (6:52)
27:10 (6:28)
34:02 (6:52)
40:25 (6:23)
42:00 (6:13 pace)

Then jogged 0.6 miles home.

Pretty chuffed with 42 mins - given that I was only doing 4.4 miles in 35:09 on the 29th April - just under 4 months ago.

[TheHeathens]

6x830m on grass today with 2 mins jog recovery

2:59
3:00
3:01
2:59
2:56
2:52

[TheHeathens]

Did 4 miles slow on Sunday and did 7 miles in 49:21 yesterday (7:03 pace) so quite happy with that.

[TheHeathens]

3.7 mile recovery run today:

7:31
14:50 (7:19)
22:01 (7:11)
27:37 (7:32 pace)

Considering where I was at 3 months ago, to be able to easily do a 7:11 mile whilst consciously going easy, I'm happy that things are going in the right direction.