ThebitterLemon wrote: » Today: program called for 6 miles easy with strides. Am in London, staying near Heathrow tonight. After checking into the hotel I got the gear on and headed up the Bath Road, towards Hounslow. Planes were coming in to land right overhead every couple of minutes, the noise was incredible, I don't know how people can sleep through that racket! The running route wasn't exactly scenic (I must have passed 20/30 fast food joints in the first mile) and the surface wasn't great either, hard concrete that was uneven in places. On the way back I took a bit of a detour, trying to find a place to do the strides, I came across a small park and did 6 ugly strides there. I don't know what it is about strides but I get a bit self conscious doing them, I really need to keep at them and try and improve the style/form. Ugly or not I was happy to have them done and I ran the same route back to the hotel. All in 6.5 miles @ 8.10 plus the strides. Am staying in Hammersmith tomorrow so hopefully I'll find a better running route. TbL
ThebitterLemon wrote: » Today: program called for 9 miles, 1 MPM, 1 steady, 1 MPM, 1 steady, etc. Tang must have put a hex on the tent as the kids came back into the house around half time in the England v. Italy match. At least I got a half ðecent nights sleep! The sun was out in all it's glory this morning so I decided to do the session later this evening when it was cooler. Around lunchtime it started to get cloudy and I decided to make the most of it and headed out to get the session done. Ran around Rossaveal as it's a bit flatter than my usual route, but still have a few small inclines. It was very warm out there and I was sweating buckets. Did half mile wu/cd and alternate MPM and steady miles. Splits; 6.54 7.36 6.59 7.38 6.53 7.43 6.58 7.34 6.58 Had to work hard on the last mile and the session wasn't as comfortable as I thought it would be. Anyway it's done and I'm off to flame grill a bovine carcass on the barbie! TbL 50 mile week first since Limerick training block.
tang1 wrote: » Many is the happy summer i spent in Ros A Mhil, have never ran around there though. Something i must rectify.
Murph_D wrote: » Late night treadmill discipline. Fair play - better than nothing.
cianc wrote: » Chin up, happens to us all TbL. Any idea what went wrong? Just a bad day? Did you go out too hard? Do you think you're aiming too high for current level of fitness? etc. How did you feel before and afterwards?
ThebitterLemon wrote: » Well that was a shockingly poor session, that has brought me down to earth with a bang! Program called for 2 mile wu/cd with 4 miles at HMP. I had in mind a HMP of 6.30 for this training cycle, I thought it would be a stretch for the first part of the cycle but not unrealistic. I need to start copping on and stop mitching off on the strides and also need to start getting mentally tougher, as I had myself psyched out before the start, telling myself that sure 6.40 average would be grand (and as it transpired it would have been). Headed out to Rossaveal route again, slight inclines, bit of wind and lots of excuses! 8 miles total. Splits for the supposed HMP; 6.39 6.49 6.52 6.55 (mother of sweet merciful Jesus!) TbL
FBOT01 wrote: » I had a similar experience with my first HMP session of this cycle. Only different was I only aimed for 6:50/7:00 for a lot of the reasons you mentioned. 3 weeks later when I was more settled into the plan pushing/holding the pace was a much "easier" job. Wouldn't worry to much about one bad day....you have 112 more to make up for it:)
yaboya1 wrote: » What's the target in Amsterdam TbL? Sub 3?
ThebitterLemon wrote: » Got thrown out of the car on the way back, 14 miles from the house. Nice comfortable run with a steady effort the whole way. A couple of nasty hills in the last 2 miles so the pace dropped down but effort stayed the same.
