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 [...]
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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, [...]
Marathon Training Day 42
Well, today was a long run of 13 miles. It was absolutely b-e-a-utiful out there. The sun was shining and the temperature was comfortable enough that I was able to go out in just my running tights and a long sleeve shirt. No jacket or gloves required. This fantastic weather made the run so much [...]
Marathon Training Day 39
Tonight was a tempo run. A mile warm up then three miles at 9:00ish pace and a mile cool down. The last time I ran this pace was several weeks ago when the training was really kicking my butt. Tonight was a tale of two halves. The first half I struggled slightly to not only [...]
Marathon Training Day 38
I ran home today for my slow six miles. I mapped a route through Claygate as I mentioned yesterday. It was a nice route but there were a couple of drawbacks. Mainly, a lot of the route was very rural, which means little to no pavement to run on. I am alright running on the [...]
Marathon Training Day 37
Tonight was a speed work session. I started with the usual mile warm up at 10:40ish pace. I then did 8 x 400 metres (.25 miles) at very fast 8:00ish pace with 200 metre (.12 miles) recoveries. That followed with the mile cool down at 10:40ish again. I felt good tonight despite feeling very tired [...]