Another wet, windy and cold one out there tonight. I was buffeted by 10 or 15mph gusts and drenched in ‘light rain’ virtually the whole seven miles. I also found the slow 10:20-10:30 pace torturous at times and struggled to keep from going faster. I ended up doing 10:20 per mile. I reckon the quick [...]
Archive of entries posted on March 2010
Marathon Training Day 58
Well, winter has returned to Britain, to an extent. It was wet, windy and rather cold this evening. Just when I thought I could bare even part of the oh-so-pale legs in 3/4 tights. Oh well. Tonight was speed work. It consisted of a mile warm up followed by 12 x 200 metre (.12 miles) [...]
Marathon Training Day 56
I ran a 10k race today as part of marathon training. The training programme suggestion was to race anywhere from five miles to half-marathon, which is 13.1 miles. I was unable to find a half nearby so I chose to run a 10k in Hyde Park. It is the largest and one of the most [...]
Marathon Training Day 53
Tonight was wet; very, very wet. I only had to do a mile warm up, two miles ‘brisk’ at 9:00ish pace and a mile cool down. That’s only four measly miles. Inevitably, it starts raining half-way into my warm-up and I mean pissing it down. I’m soaked before I even start running. It continues and [...]
Marathon Training Day 52
Tonight I ran home again for my slow eight miles. I ran through Hampton Court Palace Park, which was lovely. You can see the map here. I actually came up right next to Hampton Court. History buffs (or Tudors fans) will recognise this as Henry VIII’s palace. Very interesting to come round the corner and [...]
Marathon Training Day 51
Today was a repeat of a session last done on 16 February: 1 mile warm up, 1 mile at 8:35ish pace, .25 jog recovery, repeat two more times, 1 mile cool down. The quick pace was certainly easier tonight than a month ago. The only problem is finding it and keeping it. I’ll start off [...]
Marathon Training Day 49
I didn’t get a chance to post on Friday as we were busy packing to go to Cardiff. So, that was six miles steady at 9:16 per mile. Today, phew. Today was my first ever 15 miles. It was hard for several reasons: I didn’t get enough sleep; I underestimated the heat and didn’t have [...]
Marathon Training Day 46
As mentioned yesterday, today was a seven miler. I did this in 10:28 per mile and ran home from work again via the same route as last week with a run by Hampton Court Palace to add on the mileage. You can see a map here.
Marathon Training Day 45
You should be reading about a run of seven miles slow but I’ve shuffled the runs around this week due to a work meeting this evening and our trip to Cardiff this weekend. The seven miler will be done tomorrow and the six miles steady on Friday. Saturday’s easy four miles won’t happen and then [...]
Marathon Training Day 44
Tonight was the first in this training programme for a very interesting and almost relaxed, fun session: hills. You start with a mile warm up, then find a long hill and run up it for two minutes at whatever speed you wish, then walk or very slowly jog back down for three minutes to recover, [...]