Week Commencing 9th February
That's week 6 of London Marathon training complete. Just 10 weeks to go. Its hard to think I've potentially only got 6-7 weeks left of the hard training then taper will start. Its been a great week for training. A whopping 57 miles ran and feeling good. Like I said on my Facebook post earlier today its now I feel the marathon training has really started. Feeling tired on writing this after a good 20 mile long run. Just got back from a dog socialisation session with Lilly so I'm now ready to chill for the rest of the day. On Thursday I received an email from England Athletics to say they had received my change of club application and its been sent to the eligibility committee and I should hear back next week subject to satisfactory completion of checks. Who would of thought changing a running club would be such a faff on? A £10 admin fee for this to. Ridiculous I know but it needs to be done for everything to be official. All going well I'll be good to go from 1st March I reckon.
Onto this weeks training, Monday was a 5 mile recovery run. Legs actually felt good considering the long run the day before. Tuesday I was over the track running 20 x 200m intervals. Efforts were controlled and not full belt. Was a cold night on the track but no wind, rain or sleet which was a bonus. Wednesday I had another good catch up with Brian and ran an 11 mile medium long run. Felt a little tired towards the end of this run. Thursday another speed session over the track with the harriers hammering out 5 x 3 minute efforts. I was covering around 860 metres in the 3 minutes so was pleased with that. The last 800m rep session I was struggling to get under 3 minutes and that was not that long ago. Friday rest rest rest! My favourite evening of the week. I was working Saturday morning this week so not parkrun was ran. When I got in I ran a 6.6 mile run to Sadberge and back with Keedy. Thrown in a couple of hills for good measure and picked up a the pace a little coming back. After this run I left my trainers on my front door step to air off and they had a little mud on them. Something I do quiet often. Bad mistake! When I went to get them this morning some kind person has nicked them. They had well over 1000 miles in them and were not the best looking trainers because of their age but still that's beside the point. A later night than I would of liked last night but was up early still this morning for today's 20 mile long run. Really enjoyed today. Different route again and 19 of us making the run go by quite quick. Admittedly felt tired on the last couple of mile but I'm running in a depleted state on the long ones. Ran it this morning on just a coffee again. That's put me on 57 mile for the week. Not ran 20 in a long time too.
Monday - 5 mile recovery @ 8:06 pace
Onto this weeks training, Monday was a 5 mile recovery run. Legs actually felt good considering the long run the day before. Tuesday I was over the track running 20 x 200m intervals. Efforts were controlled and not full belt. Was a cold night on the track but no wind, rain or sleet which was a bonus. Wednesday I had another good catch up with Brian and ran an 11 mile medium long run. Felt a little tired towards the end of this run. Thursday another speed session over the track with the harriers hammering out 5 x 3 minute efforts. I was covering around 860 metres in the 3 minutes so was pleased with that. The last 800m rep session I was struggling to get under 3 minutes and that was not that long ago. Friday rest rest rest! My favourite evening of the week. I was working Saturday morning this week so not parkrun was ran. When I got in I ran a 6.6 mile run to Sadberge and back with Keedy. Thrown in a couple of hills for good measure and picked up a the pace a little coming back. After this run I left my trainers on my front door step to air off and they had a little mud on them. Something I do quiet often. Bad mistake! When I went to get them this morning some kind person has nicked them. They had well over 1000 miles in them and were not the best looking trainers because of their age but still that's beside the point. A later night than I would of liked last night but was up early still this morning for today's 20 mile long run. Really enjoyed today. Different route again and 19 of us making the run go by quite quick. Admittedly felt tired on the last couple of mile but I'm running in a depleted state on the long ones. Ran it this morning on just a coffee again. That's put me on 57 mile for the week. Not ran 20 in a long time too.
Monday - 5 mile recovery @ 8:06 pace
Tuesday - Speed - 20 x 200m intervals on track targeting around 40-45 second pace. 8.7 mile covered
Wednesday - 11 mile medium long run @ 7:57 pace
Thursday - Speed - 5 x 3 minute intervals with 90 second recovery. 5.5 mile covered
Friday - Rest
Saturday - 6.6 mile easy run @ 7:42 pace
Sunday - 20 mile long run @ 7:50 pace
This weeks weigh in : 175.5 Lbs (Starting weight 184.5 Lbs/Target weight 160 Lbs)
Lost so far since 3rd January: 9 lbs
Lost so far since 3rd January: 9 lbs
Weekly mileage - 57
Week conclusion and looking ahead.
Week conclusion and looking ahead.
Next week will see my mileage drop a bit so a brief rest bite. No long run too. I will be running the Blackpool Half Marathon next Sunday which I plan to test out the marathon pace. Will be my first road race of 2015. Will be setting off about 5:45am so an early start next Sunday! Hopefully the weather will be on our side. A few other harriers will be making the trek over too. Now well into February and I remember scrolling through my Twitter feed last year and reading a short simple piece of advice from @girlwhatruns (Liz Yelling) which I wanted to share.
"February is when marathon training starts to get tough. Fuel well, sleep longer, and don't take risks. Injury/illness free = consistent training"
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