This blog is mainly to help me and Ron (my fabulous coach) keep track of what is going on in my training. Good days. Bad days. Successes and failures. Aches and pains. That sort of thing. But please come visit once in a while to see how we're getting on!

Thursday, 6 January 2011

Rediscovering the joys of the 'medium long' run

20M - double; recovery run & medium long run
5M am recovery run at 7.30-8.00min/M with pack
15M pm medium long run at 6.30 (0-5M), 6.15 (5-10M) & 5.55 (10-15M) with pack

I had a good chat with Ron last night and also a flick through my notes from last year's pre-marathon training. The plan is to hit some good mileages over the next 2 months (100 miles plus). I'm now going to focus a bit more on the quality of my longer runs (rather than just clocking up the miles as I was in December when I was testing myself out at high mileage).

So today's evening run was the beginning. I ran it as a crescendo run, slowly building towards ~10% below marathon pace. The last five felt good and I hit my planned times ok despite the Queenstown Road hill and human traffic in Clapham.

The morning run was a good loosener (a deux) too.

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