Training for Boscombe 10k November 2012 - General running

Tony Hunt 3

07/08/2012 at 00:33

Football tonight for 70 minutes, so my interval training is taken care of. 4 mile run tomorrow. Running four times a week at the moment and my goal is to break 50 minutes in the Boscombe 10k. Good luck to me and any training or nutrition tips will be greatly received.

Anybody else running in the Boscombe 10k?

Tony Hunt 3

08/08/2012 at 21:03

Running 3.5 miles in 30 minutes tomorrow. A quicker pace than recent training runs and much nearer to the pace I wish to run the Boscombe 10k at. My goal is to run the 10k in sub 50 minute. However, if the training goes well that goal could drop.

Tony Hunt 3

03/09/2012 at 22:03

Training at 9 minute per mile pace now down from 10 min per mile. Feeling much fitter and ran 6 miles recently, which is the furthest I have run since the Boscombe 10k in 2007.

J1M

04/09/2012 at 12:29

There's a sub 45 10k schedule here

http://www.209events.com/file/250.pdf

If you can follow that it will help you reach your target. Even if you can't it will give you an idea of what you can do to improve.

Plenty of time until your race and sounds like your doing well so you can only get better.

Good luck.

Edited: 04/09/2012 at 12:29

Tony Hunt 3

04/09/2012 at 15:14

Thank you J1M. I'll have a look.

Tony Hunt 3

10/09/2012 at 22:00

Challenged myself to run a mile as quick as I could tonight and ran 6.33. Previous time was 7.14.

exiled claret

10/09/2012 at 22:54

If I don't hit my 40 min target at Taunton this month I may well be at Boscombe!

Tony Hunt 3

26/09/2012 at 14:30

Last week I hit my highest mileage of 21.94 miles. 22.35 5k which was near my maximum effort.

My training is going well.

exiled claret

26/09/2012 at 15:16

Well done Tony.

I may well be there as I was disorganised and didn't get my Taunton entry in and it is now full. I may go for Dartmoor Vale instead, otherwise it will be Boscombe.

Have you run Boscombe before/do you know the course. Is it reasonably flat?

Tony Hunt 3

26/09/2012 at 16:21

I wouldn't call it flat but it isn't that demanding. Although I last ran the Boscombe 10k in 2007.

Thank you for your support.

exiled claret

26/09/2012 at 18:11

Cheers for that! Hopefully the hills won't have grown in the last 5 years!!!

Tony Hunt 3

20/10/2012 at 20:22

Ran my first sub 6 minute mile today.

Ran 1 mile in 5.53. I use the map my run app on my phone and when it said 1 mile at 5.53 I was so pleased.

My previous mile time trials had been on the road but using a running track made a huge difference.

My next goal is 5.30 but that goal will probably have to wait until after the Boscombe 10k.

Tony Hunt 3

28/10/2012 at 21:28

4 mile tempo run today with the last mile at 7.06

exiled claret

29/10/2012 at 06:22

Tony that's some serious increase in speed since the start of this thread. What time are you aiming for now?

Tony Hunt 3

25/11/2012 at 19:26

Boscombe 10k done in 49.01

Last two weeks I have hardly run because of starting a new job and working loads of hours.

So my goal time was to do less than 50 minutes. To make it very difficult I had Tapas and 4 lagers the night before and went to bed late. What an idiot!

Anyway splits below -

5.16 / 4.37 / 4.53 / 4.49 / 4.47 / 4.30 / 4.35 / 6 / 4.41 / 4.50

I developed a terrible stitch which showed in a terrible split for 8k

Anyway, next 10k I will improve my prep and try to knock off a minute

exiled claret

26/11/2012 at 08:25

Well, you did better than me. I only realised a week or so ago that it was no entries on the day & that it was full.

I did Poole Parkrun on Saturday instead, but due to some very cautious drivers due to the weather arrived late and missed the start. I just legged it from the car park and carried on. I was about 1:30 after the start. It was quite nice passing lots of people, but even on my watch time of 20:05 I was 50s slower than last month. Boo!

Tony Hunt 3

26/11/2012 at 15:53

Bad luck mate. The Poole park is great and I ran it for the first time recently. Going to train more now and look to break 20 mins in a 5k. Lots of work ahead.

exiled claret

26/11/2012 at 15:56

If you are going to break it, then Poole is the course to do it on - they reckon it's the fastest parkrun course in the country.

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