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Confessions of a never has been.....
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26.07.2016
Monday
usual run home from work, nice little run - these Monday runs are rapidly becoming my favourite run of the week
4.1 miles
weights\stretching
Tuesday
a planed session was ditched given that I had run a meaty enough session on Sunday evening. In its place, arrived a 22 mile long run - with Howth thrown in for the craic !
Got going after work, perfect evening for it with the drizzling rain and the mild air, dumped the backpack in the house and carried on up into St Anne's before heading off for Howth.
Instructions were to focus on effort and not pace on the uphill\downhill sections ( just as well really!). The climb up was tough enough work at times, I made my way right up the summit car park... but I found the descent tougher on my quads to be honest ( easier on the lungs though) and I was glad to get myself back down to sea level with about 5 miles to go.
Felt great for most of this, the legs tired after 20 miles though and it took a bit of grit to get the job done in the end.
Very happy to have this one done
22.15 miles@ 7.46
( thought better of doing anything other than eating, relaxing and stretching after)0 -
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AuldManKing wrote: »your training is going amazing. I'm tempted to write down all those sessions
Who set your plan up for you and what will be your max mileage?
I said the exact same thing last week. Somebody asked me about doing marathon specific sessions and long runs with stuff I told them all they needed to do was go back over this log or that of Myles Splits and they will find plenty of options..........as that's what I intend doing
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AuldManKing wrote: »your training is going amazing. I'm tempted to write down all those sessions
Who set your plan up for you and what will be your max mileage?
Thanks A - its gone well for the past while alright, fingers crossed I keep it up for another 7 and a bit weeks too !
I've been working with Myles for quite a while now, he puts the plan\sessions together on a week to week basis, I don't actually know what the max mileage will be, I would guess maybe early 90s?
Write away by the way, feel free!0 -
07.08.2016
7 weeks till Berlin and the runs are coming thick and fast ( well, slow ...mainly...you get the idea though). This week was a bit of a rollercoaster with work and life throwing up all sorts of obstacles to overcome before I could get on with the good stuff !
Monday
Recovery effort around St Anne's park - felt pretty tired to be honest, legs were fine but the body and mind were flagging and glad of the very easy pace
4 miles very easy
Weights, core, stretching
Tuesday
First of two meaty sessions of the week - I had the choice of a 2.5 hour(ish) session or a shorter session - whichever one I picked, I'd run the other on Sat morning ( early).
Foolishly I let time restrictions dictate my choice of sessions and went for the longer one, given that I would have a free run of the evening as opposed to having to get up that bit earlier on Saturday morning.
The plan was for a 7-7-7 progression run, 7.45-7.00-6.30
Got started straight after work on the easy stuff and was noticably sweating and working a bit more than normal by the time I was dumping the backpack off at home (just over 4 miles in), thinking back, the signs weren't great at all.
Carried on into St Anne's and despite some temporary relief from the backpack, soon enough I was working harder than I wanted to be again.
By the time I moved onto the 7.00 paced stuff, I was feeling the effort, I normally love this pace and often have to reel myself in on easy runs to stop slipping into steady pace because I enjoy the rhythm so much - not tonight!
8\9 miles in and I was getting thoughts of packing the run in, I knew I wasn't recovered, it was warm out but that wasn't an excuse, we'd had lots of warm evenings of late and I'd run sessions fine.
10,11, 12 miles in and I was still working too hard, no sign of settling into the pace......got to 14 miles when it was time to step it up to 6.30 pace and I knew I was a gonner, made it about 3\4 of the way through the first 6.30 mile and I was blowing hard, ridiculous effort levels for the pace...put the breaks on, gave myself a bollocking and decided to salvage a 20 mile run from the night...finished off with some very slow and very uncomfortable easy miles to bring the total up to 20 for the night.
20 miles @ 7.30
Wednesday
AM - 6 miles easy, tired, stiff legs
PM - 6 miles easy, tired, stiff legs
pressups
Thursday
Crazy at work yesterday\last night so had a poor nights sleep and paid for it with this morning's run
AM - 6 cranky miles at 8.09 pace around St Anne's
PM - Bizzarely I was full of beans on this run and felt great, beautiful calm evening for it though, maybe that caused the energy levels to spike or something, had to reign it in at times.
6 miles @ 7.59
Friday
AM - lovely run, 6 easy miles, rested well last night
PM - cranky and tired again, 6 poxy miles
Core\pressups
Saturday
Session time again and today was a chance to get back on the wagon after Tuesday's "blip" ( coach used that phrase so I'm using it too)
3 miles easy, 4x10 minutes with 3 min recovery, 3 miles easy
Target paces for each section:
6.30
6.20
6.10
6.10
Up early to get this done but not as early as recent weeks, quick sup of coffee and I was out the door and headed for St Anne's to get my warmup done.
Upped the pace a little over the last easy mile to make the first section less of a shock and it worked a treat, had to work quite a bit initially into the wind to get the pace down but held it nicely once I did.
3 minutes recovery flew through and I was lapping Fairview park for the 2nd section before I knew it, again, the wind proving to be a pest at times and the hump at eastpoint business park reminded me that my run-mute isn't quite as flat as I always say it is.
Into another 3 minutes easy and I was dreading the thoughts of upping the pace again, I was feeling tired now but knew I had to get through this one. Worked hard again into the wind for most of this section, getting some relief after turning along the back of Fairview park but the climb up past EastPoint nearly killed me this time! kicked the legs up and over and got it done again
One section to go and I knew I'd get it done but also knew it was going to hurt. Ran this along the coast but avoided the grass in case I went over on an ankle, plenty of other runners out and about at this stage and I'm sure I was a sight for sore eyes with my flailing arms and legs as I gasped and spluttered my way through this one.
Got it done though
Section 1: 6.25
Section 2: 6.18
Section 3: 6.13 ( little slow but the effort was right with the wind etc)
Section 4: 6.08
3 miles easy to bring the total to 13.65 miles
Weights\stretching after
Sunday
Nothing like a 4 hour stint walking around the zoo to freshen up the legs
- in fairness, I love the zoo, brought loads of food and made lots of " lets sit here for a few minutes and take in the wolves\lions\whatever" comments while dishing out goodies to distract everyone...suckers
Got out for an easy run on some pretty tired legs this evening and despite the wind and rain, I really enjoyed this one, stayed within St Anne's and mainly on the grass too - legs felt good towards the end too
9 miles @ 7.50 min\miles
pressups\stretching after
Just shy of 83 miles for the week and despite Tuesday's mishap, another good week down - recovery is critical to getting through the next few weeks though, the weekly mileage is no problem anymore, the long nature of some of the sessions is something that has possibly thrown me though, they definitely linger deep in the legs a little longer than I'm used to.
7 weeks to go, a lot of work done and each week seems to get more important than the last0 -
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10.08.2016
Monday
Monday Monday.....4 easy miles home from work, took it very handy and enjoyed the effort.
4.1 miles @ 8.30ish ( I think)
Stretching and core afterwards
Tuesday
Scaled back long run this week with the half coming up this weekend - 10 easy miles on the cards tonight.
I won't lie - I really enjoyed knowing that I didn't have 2.5 hour run ahead of me after work and subsequently enjoyed the run that followed.
Usual route, dumped the bag, into St Anne's etc....Garmin was acing up a bit though, it gave me a 6.xx first mile which couldn't have been the case.
Felt good all the way
10 miles @ 7.42 min\miles
skipped the extra work in favour of giving the body some rest this week
Wednesday
Plan had me down for a session today and I had a mental day at the office which meant no way I'd get this in at lunch, a dinner after work which meant no chance in the evening so I got out a little earlier than normal to get it done.
2 miles easy, 1 mile@6.10, 1 mile easy, 2 miles@6,30, 1 mile easy, 1 mile@6.10, 2 miles easy
Tough little session, the usual bit of breeze out on the coast road added to the effort levels maybe but always felt in control of the paces.
8.25
7.57
6.07
8.06
6.23
6.25
8.21
6.06
8.08
8.12
No time for extras this evening, busy stuffing my face 0 -
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