07-06-2015, 09:22 AM,
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RE: June... my goodness how the time has flewn
I need a Plan like Dan I say
I need a Plan to run
The Jog Shop 20 won’t run itself
I need a plan that’s fun.
Trouble is… the unpredictable nature of work makes planning very difficult… so my plan is more a series of rules (or at least an ambition).
So here it is... my plan: Each week I will:
· run a long one… focusing on distance not speed
· run a short fast one… focusing on speed
· do something in-between (this could include squash or a bike ride).
That’s 3 lots of exercise each week. With the intention, that by the end of July, I am running up to 15 miles. I need to persuade BGG to join me on these longer jaunts as I need his relentless puffing and grunting to keep me going.
This morning was the first run since that awful experience with Sweder a couple of weeks ago (for the record (and for a change), it wasn’t Sweder that was the awful bit)… since then I have suffered a horrible cold and an unbelievable work load. I headed out this morning with little expectation other than to run about 5 miles and to take in a hill or two. It was a deliberately slow plod up to the top of Kingston Ridge and then back via road to Lewes. All in all, 5.5 miles at a pace of 10.18.
It was nice to be out there again, but I cannot pretend that it was particularly easy. Usually it takes me a couple of miles to find my comfort zone… this morning I couldn’t find it at all. However, one of the challenges living in Lewes is that it is very difficult to find an easy first 2 miles.
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08-06-2015, 07:05 PM,
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RE: June... my goodness how the time has flewn
Good grief.
I’m playing squash tomorrow night and then away for a couple of days, so although I ran yesterday, I needed to do a short fast one this evening to stay sweet with my new-fangled plan.
For short ones I favour Sweder’s circuit as I know it well, its spot on 3 miles, and I can monitor my performance; it also has a bit of everything: narrow nettle filled paths, wide farm tracks, an uphill section, beautiful Down land views and some road work… which I detest, but it’s a good test of my mental vigour.
The result: I was 40 seconds – FORTY SECONDS – off my best min/mi pace for this run. I knew I had lost ground on the uphill bit, but I thought I was running pretty well along the top, but obviously the pace failed to materialise.
However, that’s the bad news… the good news is that I was out there and it was a glorious evening.
Two down so far this week – can I fit in another one on Friday (before we go to the pub)? The pub after a run makes the beer taste sweeter… it’s a scientific fact.
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10-06-2015, 12:04 AM,
(This post was last modified: 10-06-2015, 12:05 AM by Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man.)
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RE: June... my goodness how the time has flewn
I'm here! Or rather, I'm back (just). Have now at long last returned to Oz after seven weeks over t' other side of t' planet. Have had limited time and limited access to t' interwebby thing to post reports, and in any case, there have been no runs to write about since our plod up Black Cap. However we did of course meet Antonio in Almeria and of those adventures I will definitely write, only not quite yet.
Already into my third day since returning and I've only just finished unpacking my suitcase.
I need a holiday.
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10-06-2015, 03:51 PM,
(This post was last modified: 17-06-2015, 08:12 AM by Sweder.)
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RE: June... my goodness how the time has flewn
My Dear Mr Charlie Cat,
I'm afraid I'm remarkably fat
I must tell you, I fear
That I've drunk too much beer
And that, mate, is pretty much that
Still, I'll be back from Der Nederlands at the weekend and waddling about in no time.
Glaconman boastful? What tosh. We're each an experiment of one, not one performance comparable with another. I have mates who knock out Parkruns in under 19 minutes every week and others posting PBs in the high twenties. It's all relative, but only in a meaningful way when comparing one's self to oneself.
It's when Runkeeper tells me 'congratulations! That's your 8th fastest 4.7 k run' (when I've only done 8) that I get really depressed about my running times. These 'not quite training, just keeping my hand (feet) in' outings are jolly important. Got to keep the wheels spinning, what?
Pip pip.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph
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10-06-2015, 06:49 PM,
(This post was last modified: 17-06-2015, 08:12 AM by Sweder.)
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RE: June... my goodness how the time has flewn
(10-06-2015, 03:51 PM)Sweder Wrote: Glaconman boastful? What tosh. We're each an experiment of one, not one performance comparable with another. I have mates who knock out Parkruns in under 19 minutes every week and others posting PBs in the high twenties. It's all relative, but only in a meaningful way when comparing one's self to oneself.
It's when Runkeeper tells me 'congratulations! That's your 8th fastest 4.7 k run' (when I've only done 8) that I get really depressed about my running times. These 'not quite training, just keeping my hand (feet) in' outings are jolly important.
Entirely correct, Mr. Sweder. Well said, sir.
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16-06-2015, 12:48 PM,
(This post was last modified: 16-06-2015, 01:12 PM by Charliecat5.)
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RE: June... my goodness how the time has flewn
As Freddie Mercury once said:
“This is ourselves
Under Pressure”
He also said in the same song:
“It’s the terror of knowing,
What this world is about”
I’m beginning to wake up to enormity of the task ahead. I know it's early days… the question is, can I keep it up?
I read an interesting article a while ago which talked about muscle memory and the fact that it doesn’t take long for muscles to get use to a certain rhythm and because of this we very quickly achieve a position of consistency. Being aware of this phenomenon (Mah Nà Mah Nà) I recognise the need to break out and start pushing the status quo (Dan: note that inadvertently a theme is developing here).
Hence the hill reps, and now, from this lunchtime, the dastardly sprints. What am I putting my body through?
Yesterday, after an hours squash with the Boy, who it might be said at the age of 12 is giving his old man a real run around the court, I went out for a short fast one… which was short (3 miles), but not that fast (8:50 min/mi). Then today, to mix up the hill sprints a little, I set off along the railway track for a couple of sprints, up Horse Hill at a pace which was quick but sustainable, and then a clutch of four hill sprints in the usual spot.
PLEASE SOMEONE TELL ME THAT THIS IS ALL WORTH WHILE*…
Plans have changed this week and tomorrow I am heading to Carlisle for a couple of days… so Leave a Light On***
(*which as it happens is a song by Tom Cat Norton**).
(** I had to look that up on Google).
(*** Sorry).
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