So, to reiterate and expand on an earlier post…
Race-plan for this year:
Current PBs:
2013 targets:
So last Sunday was my last race of the year, the Leeds Abbey Dash, I didn’t get the time I was looking for but did get another pb: 00:37:15 so not too bad.
Time to start planning for next year, it’s got a bit more shape than this year:
March – Bradford 10k
May – Leeds Half, Copenhagen Marathon
July – Leeds 10k
August – York 10k
September – Horsforth 10k, maybe the GNR but don’t know if I can face the ballot and paying the ridiculous entry fee.
October – another marathon
November – Leeds Abbey Dash 10k
Aims:
Current times:
So basically it’s mainly a question of some 5:45 minute miling for 10k, 6 minute (ish) miles for the half and 7 m/m for the marathon(s). Easy peasy…
I love the rigid routine that my life has at the moment, with a 6-day-a-week training plan there isn’t a lot of room for much apart from work, running, eating and sleeping. Which is fine by me…at the moment.
However it does leave me tired, grumpy, hungry and can turn running into a complete numbers game. I want to run x time so I need to run this amount of miles, at this pace, this regularly, blah blah blah. It can be a bit joyless. It also completely and utterly takes over your life.
But then, I chose to do this and if I can run the time I’ve been aiming for for the last 5 months then it’ll be worth it.
What’s the saying? Train hard, race easy…or something
Did some boring/geeky pace maths ahead of trying to run sub-35 mins at the Leeds 10k, I think I will inevitably lose some time over the last km but will try to run a negative split, I’m going to try and run to the following splits
34 minutes
10 km
3:24 minute per km
17.65 km per hour
I AM AWARE THIS IS OF INTEREST TO ALMOST NO-ONE!
My mum said that a training diary is boring. This made me realise 2 things, 1) my mum reads my blog (uh-oh), 2) a training diary is a boring, self-obsessed thing to do. Thus I shall stop it and only post about things that might actually be of use or interest to other people.
Work , more punctures and insomnia combined for a bit of a weird week.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Cycling mileage: 50 miles
Right, happy new year, hello 2012 etc. In May I am running the Belfast marathon. In June I am cycling through the Pyrenees. Inexplicably I have once again scheduled to do a long bike ride and a marathon within a month of each other (last year I did the Edinburgh marathon 3 weeks after finishing the end to end). To try and avoid feeling as awful as I did after the end-to-end I am going to try and get in the best shape possible.
So.
I’m going to do a weekly training diary between now and the summer. Hopefully it’ll end up being part diary, part forces-me-to-do-stuff-so-i-don’t-look-lazy and part it-might-be-useful-to-someone (and also, hopefully, not too boring).
Monday
Sometimes (read: a lot of the time) I have a complete mental block with the gym, it’s not like running or cycling outside, it’s too easy to stop, finish early and go home. Today was one of those days.
The cycle home was impossibly difficult, I thought I must’ve forgotten to eat or the very short gym-ness had taken more out of me than should be possible, however I got home and on closer inspection realised that the huge amount of mud and road-gunk encasing my rear brake (due to my lack of mudguards) meant that it had locked itself ‘on’. So I had cycled home, all the way, with the brake on. Brilliant.
Tuesday
On the way back from work I hit an enormous pothole (Abbey Road, near the junction with Hawksworth Road if anyone cares), the impact was horrible and by the time I got home my front tyre was a soggy mess, the inner tube had been completely annihilated by the bump. Got incredibly dirty changing the tube, I really need to clean my bike.
Wednesday
Cleaned my bike, got incredibly filthy doing so.
Thursday
Biblical amounts of rain and standing water, I should invest in some overshoes so my shoes fill up with water slightly slower.
Friday
Saturday
In hilariously windy conditions I actually got blown sideways, which was simultaneously fun and weird.
Sunday
Oh and every week I’m going to total my cycling mileage because…it’s good to have stats. And really, to be ready to cycle in the Pyrenees I need to be up to over 100-150 miles a week by May. This week = 40 miles