May 2008
8:04pm, 14 May 2008
17,220 posts
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Hendo
LOL! You know what I did actually consider it!! Then I remembered I'd be in civvy street, not the strange land of the running folk.
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May 2008
9:20pm, 14 May 2008
613 posts
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Joopsy
5k, 8:45mm @ 68%. Did 6 x 800m loop getting progressively fasterfrom 9:48 down to 7:50mm.
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May 2008
9:25am, 15 May 2008
3,599 posts
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hellen
still waiting to see 85% Joops!!!!!
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May 2008
9:32am, 15 May 2008
4,517 posts
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Lumsdoni
looking at these times Joops ithink at 85% you will be nudging selection for Beijing!
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May 2008
10:14am, 15 May 2008
3,600 posts
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hellen
do you think he has his max/resting HR wrong!!!!
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May 2008
10:19am, 15 May 2008
4,518 posts
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Lumsdoni
NO Hellen, I saw him when he set his Max HR!! He is however a running machine at present, and is losing weight like Gordon Brown's losing followers.
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May 2008
10:31am, 15 May 2008
3,602 posts
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hellen
He's not going to stick to 9.30s at Edinburgh then is he!??? Better practice 9.30s on my own jsut in case, I can go faster, I can go slower but running dead on 9.30 is not something I am used to!!
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May 2008
10:21pm, 15 May 2008
221 posts
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IanRunner
Did my final run today before Sunday's Marathon, wasnt too bad. I was more pleased to get it done without any injuries more than anything else, not that I was expecting one.
Starting to get a bit excited and nervous knowing how close it is!
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May 2008
11:51pm, 15 May 2008
4,540 posts
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Lumsdoni
GOod on you Ian.
I let you all down tonight with a shambles of a Grey area run. I think like Joopsy my pace at certainHR;s has dropped suddenly. A few weeks ago it was relatively easy to get to 85% and maintin it, now I am really struggling.
Planned to do 1m warm up, then 1m at 8:00 pace then 2m at 7:30 or faster which should have been 85% then 8:00 then warm down.
Warmd up, and went flying again, 7:12, and continued for another 0.35m before walking a bit and finishing the mile in 8:52 warm up - 8:23, 8:25, then another fast one 7:18, 8:57. I was all over the place though, with 5s walks here and there, I've lost a bit of speed stamina recently, probably diet, not been so good on that front recently with the stress at work. Overall it was a good session for 8:12 pace and 74% but technically it was a nightmare.
I think I need to focus a bit more on pacing again. A take my own advice and run to the plan.I seem to be killing myself with 7:00 min miles at present and I want to be donig 3 of them for my next 5k.
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May 2008
9:35am, 16 May 2008
614 posts
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Joopsy
Yes Lums, I feel very let down by your run last night. I played footy last night, how mad is that the week before Edinburgh but I came through if a little stiff today. Hellen, think you have a point about my RHR. I was talking to my wife wilst stood in teh kitchen yesterday and looked down and saw my HR at 49!! I base it at 50 at the moment, I reckon on a proper RHR it wll be more like 46-47 now. I will test it today and it is one hing that I have not thought of with my fitness and weight levels improving.
Still on for 9:30's at Edinburgh though Helen, I really want to enjoy it, I honestly believe now that with a push I am capable f a sub 4 but two things are stopping me. One I am meeting my parents straight after the race and I want to go out and enjoy dinner with them and secondly I am staying in Scotland for the week with the kids and there is going to be a lot of walking and cycling around lochs, I want t enjoy that too!
I am still in two minds whether to enter one later this year as the thought of Lums going sub 4 without me it too much to bear, but I am definitely doing Paris next year so it would be nice to go for it then.
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