Off the Fence....and looking to go sub 3 hrs

30/11/2015 - Rest with 1 hr of Pilates in the evening

01/12/2015
- 4.1m @ 08:12 avg pace (General Aerobic w/4x100m Strides)
- Yoga 1.5hrs
- 3.6m @ 07:19 avg pace (General Aerobic w/2m @ not quite HMP)

No lift home from yoga tonight so decided to run there and back and break the planned 7m up accordingly. Did the strides at the end of the run over and left the 2m @ HMP for the way home. It was a tough enough class and I felt a bit knackered hitting the road home. Agreed with myself that I wouldn't look at the watch and that I wouldn't bust a gut during HMP miles either. The HMP miles ended up at 06:45 and 06:35 so not to unhappy with that as I also had a bit of the wind to deal with.

02/12/2015 - 4m @ 09:20 avg pace (Recovery)

Evening recovery run in the company of my youngest. 20mins+ of her moaning about her sore legs that were about to fall off and about how much she hates running kept me amused and ensured a relaxing outing

05/12/2015 Rest - no running. Life got in the way and in the window I did have to run I was too lazy to get off me ar$e and out the door.

06/12/2015 Lining up along the same lines as yesterday.

Firedance wrote: »

get off your backside & out the door, its a lovely evening out there

Too late the slippers are on and the pipe is lit

annapr wrote: »

Did you run in the slippers?

of course and was blowing smoke out me pipe all the way too

07/12/2015 Rest - 1hr Pilates Class

First half of 2016 is lining up as follows. Target race is Boston and the rest are just to keep things interesting:
09/01 - Waterford Half (this will give me an indication of where I am. No pressure, just run and Que Sera Sera)
31/01 - Raheny 5 (Entered)
06/03 - Ballycotton 10 (Entered)
18/04 - Boston Marathon (Entered)

Boston is 19 weeks from yesterday so need to nail down a training plan this week. Current thinking is 5 weeks of base building bringing the mileage back up to a steady 50 miles per week and then go with the P&D 55-70 12 Week program with 2 JIC weeks built in. The plan will be to train for sub 3 and reassess as I go if needed.....Here we go again

As always any constructive comments or views are very welcome...........feel free to express non-constructive comments or views too but I might just ignore them

MisterDrak wrote: »

I better get my skates on, and register also...

What time you hoping for in Raheny ???

Managed 29:59 last year so would be nice to nip under that but won't be doing any specific work for it so will just see how it goes on the day.

tang1 wrote: »

Best of luck with it M, fingers and toes crossed for you again.

Cheers B.