22 weeks to go, Training summary

This week has been pretty good. The really cold weather has gone, and the milage has been high! :)

Starting the week on Monday now, this is how the week looked..

Mon  -  11 mile              run to work, back along the canal
Tues  -  7.5 mile             SHM fast Timperly route
Weds -  10 mile             run to work and back
Thurs -  5 mile               SHM - Track work. did 16 x 300mts plus run there and back
Fri     -  0 miles              Rest day
Sat    -   17 miles           Brooklands, Hale, Bowden, Carrington. Steady run. around 3hr with stops
Sun   -   18.5 miles        Bowden, loops round TPT/Canal, Dunham Massey and back.

Total for week 69 miles

Cross training has consisted of Circuit training on Monday eve, and 3 days cycling to work. (Tues, Thursday & Fri)
Not been circuit training for a few weeks, and i felt it! Also started to try and get 30 - 50 press-ups and sit ups each night.

The mileage this week has been surprisingly high. my intension was alwas to run both sat and sunday, but I wasn't planning to run so far on the Sunday.... Wanting to stick to the 10% rule i had a 10 miles planned but running to meet Paul kinda blew this, as it was about 4.5 miles to his house!
Still, running so far on consecutive days was encouraging and exactly what i need to be doing. Plus i had my pack on both days, around 5kg to start, but did have lots of fluids on board..

dedication!

up at 06:15 on a Sunday morning for a run.....
sure it will be nice outside, but still....

:-)

23 weeks to go. Training summary

Training summary, Sunday 17th - Saturday 23rd October 2010

Training this week has been tough, both in milage, being my highest in a week this year and the weather!
I started the week with the Abingdon marathon in just under a PB time 3:14.17, and have tried to keep the momentum going.

Sun 26.2 miles RACE (plus about 3 miles early in the morning to warm up!! it was a very cold day!!)
Mon - 0
Tues - 5 miles effort with SH. Norris road (5:30 mile pace for 1.3 miles easy rest of run)
Weds - 11 miles ran to work and back, easy pace.
Thurs - 0 rest
Fri - 0
Sat - 6 mile with 5 power station hill reps.

Total for the week - 51 miles (highest yet!)
Total cycling for the week - 30 miles (low!)

The cold weather is really making things hard, I can feel it dragging on my legs, seeping into my bones.. thank goodness for hot showers! Which will also be available at work from next week! so the plan is to run to work 3 times a week, cycle twice, and get another 20 - 30 miles in outside of this.
anticipated mileage for this week 60.

Started running with my pack on too... at least to work and back. weight currently is only 2 - 5 kg. will leave it at that for a few weeks and get used to it.

Overall ver ygood week, slight tightness to my left hamstring, from the marathon, but overall very pleased coming off the back of a quick time on sunday. still think i'm weak from the 24 hr bike ride on the 1st/2nd Oct... still its heading in the right direction.

I will start to post these each week,

Carl.

Just giving has gone live!

I've finally done it...
Anybody who knows me on facebook will now see my link to my Just giving page..
Very nervous now, worried that people will think, oh another bloody charity request.. hope not.

sleep time.

Mort Subite

great place, drinking a Rochefort 10. 11.3% Belgium beer from the Rochefort Trappist.. mmmm

test

heading out for a beer after spending the day trying to spend £500 of Evans vouchers... got new waterproof jacket, loads of SiS supplements, and other bits..

this also to test my mobile blogging...