|
Aug 2010
4:44pm, 17 Aug 2010
1,568 posts
|
Jhuff
Talking about technique(adnauseum) is my gift to the world 
|
|
Aug 2010
4:44pm, 17 Aug 2010
1,328 posts
|
lunaman
Good lord. Short break form work here and there's too much!
Happy - racing: 5ks fitted in fine, but as you'll see from my profile, I don't race anywhere near enough - focus on one or two things at a time really, but now I'm in a club, this may change.
I *was* returning to 5 runs a week, just for a change really, but injured myself with a tennis ball, so hence 3 runs a week again while I build up, and while the sun's out, biking is just so lovely!
MP - the book sessions had 4 or 5 runs up to 13 miles at MP - I really liked the quantity of MP runs in fact.
Long run pace - yep, the book plans took me up to 20 miles at marathon pace + 15 seconds, which was tough. It felt really good at the time, but as I mentioned, it might have broken me as I did a hard interval session 2 days later and remained exhausted. Basically every run was a hard workout that I would simultaneously dread and salivate over!
GregP- well I'd need to learn to swim before I bought a wetsuit I think. Otherwise I'm sure tri would suit me well.
Johnny - ditto - treadie for all interval sessions last year - kept me honest. The paces in the RLRF book were evil, but I stayed injury free.
And ditto - I took up the plan due to injury, prescribed lots of cross-training to correct muscle imbalances, weaknesses, and stuck with it because I enjoyed the variety.
Yes, Jhuff, used the book. I love reading the table of Masters athletics results and seeing that I haven't equalled the 70+ marathon world record yet!
|
|
Aug 2010
4:51pm, 17 Aug 2010
1,569 posts
|
Jhuff
:)G,
I think FIRST is better than HADD.
|
|
Aug 2010
5:03pm, 17 Aug 2010
1,570 posts
|
Jhuff
Lunaman,
Yes...knowing that a 70+ yr old runner has broken 3hrs also motivates me alittle bit. Seeing that I am 34yrs old it is great to know that I have many yrs left to train for it when I actually feel like going after it again
|
|
Aug 2010
5:10pm, 17 Aug 2010
1,329 posts
|
lunaman
Exactly Jhuff, since I've got another 28 years to break 3 hours, I might as well take it easy!
|
|
Aug 2010
5:13pm, 17 Aug 2010
1,571 posts
|
Jhuff
Luna,
No need to rush things..
|
|
Aug 2010
7:32pm, 17 Aug 2010
1,397 posts
|
chirunner
happy moving from 2 runs a week now to 3 and will stick with this intensity for as long as i can this year - i want to prove firstly at the shorter end just how close i can get to my PBs and then use this as a launch board onto the longer stuff - i believe migrating in one fell swoop from 6 runs a week to 3 plus 2 xtrain is simply far too much mentally and physically, just too quick and adaption so I will use running mainly for this year and then add the xtrain from 2011 when i start the mara stuff and then i am sure I will find the adaption far less onerous.
|
|
Aug 2010
7:33pm, 17 Aug 2010
1,398 posts
|
chirunner
and if i break 3.15 off furman i will rename myself from chirunner to furrunner
|
|
Aug 2010
7:52pm, 17 Aug 2010
10,342 posts
|
HappyG(rrr)
lol at furrunner - love it chi! Are you including the LSR which is in Furman? Or just doing 3 shorter, but fast runs a week?
luna - completely agree about just "getting out there" when the weather is so gorgeous. And we've got hills round here. I love running in the hills. Tonight was just aching for 10 - 14 miles very slow and easy in the hills. But no. I've got a 3 mile run with Fetchies tomorrow and if it's going against Furman or any other plan the plans can go hang!
When is your target marathon tho chi? Surely you need to get some base aerobic and some endurance built up? Well, hope it works out for you. I'm sure you'll speed up at the short stuff no problem at all.
I have a 5K on Sunday and I will be doing well if I can get to within 2 mins of my PB! It will be closer to my PB from 2 years ago, before I started training at all! :-)G
|
|
Aug 2010
9:58am, 18 Aug 2010
10,348 posts
|
HappyG(rrr)
Well, first tempo yesterday went OK. 4 miles. I've set my pace as 7:15 10K (43 min 10K is where I was 2 years ago - sounds about right?) Short tempo is meant to be at this pace, but I ended up doing 0.5 mile warm up then 6:45, 6:54, 6:54, 6:56, then 0.5 cool down. Felt OK.
Seems weird to not have another run in plan until Saturday (5K) then long run on Sunday late. So long run will be + 75 seconds = 8:30. Which is much quicker than I have done for a while. Might just do 12 or 14 miles, so more a mid length run, but I am only just trying this stuff out, so give me a break! :-)G
|
