11 Weeks to Toral de los Vados 2005

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As BB said, this is our FLM.

Here we go, with the second week of marathon training. In total last week was good, 66 kilometers over 6 days. This week calls for a total of 69 kilometers. There is only one fast session, which is just aswell, considering the race last Sunday.

So here’s the schedule:

Monday - 6 km recovery run, at 140 bpm.
Tuesday - 8 km run at 150 bpm.
Wednesday - 3 km warm up followed by 3 X 1600m @ 185 bpm, then 3 km cool down.
Thursday - 8 km run at 150 bpm.
Friday - 16 km run at 150 bpm.
Saturday - Rest day.
Sunday - 20 km long run. To be run at 144 bpm.


Monday’s session has been run, albiet a shade slower than the schedule. Although the legs felt fairly good for the session, nothing was aching, it was difficult to raise the enthusiasm, or the heart rate, so I trotted along at 130 beats per minute.

Today's 8km was fine, run at 148 bpm into a gale force wind, bright sunshine but cold as hell in the wind. The one thing about being less corpulent these days is that my hands are always cold. Never used to be the case.