RW Forum SIx – 3.30 – 4.00

Spoons - close shave this morning, good to see no injuries sustained. Like the others said, sod the gym and go to the pub as a recovery session !

Look at you all, you've grown up so quickly.   Thanks for the advice all, I have definitely benefited froma lazy day today, a quick rev of the engine tomorrow with a light speed session and I should be good to go.

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Spoons - close shave this morning, good to see no injuries sustained. Like the others said, sod the gym and go to the pub as a recovery session !

Spoons - took me a while to work out what happened but found it on the main thread. Glad to hear you are ok and hope the recovery session did the trick.

Work has played havoc with my running plans for tonight. Got home a way too late and if I had put on the running gear to head out the door I think my OH would have had me sectioned ......

Will decide tomorrow evening if I stick with my thursday interval session or swop it for the MLR. Whichever I don't do I will do Friday night and 22 mile LSR on Saturday.

So looking forward to my taper next week.

Big match tonight so just jumped on the treadmill for my session.

Did 7 miles with a block of MP in the middle - 61 mins for the run.... and had to wring my towel out after.. phew warm work!

Poor Gunners - out on away goals... the cruellest way to go out. Everybody had them written off tonight  - including you Oirish! So very nearly  ...

Carl glad to see The Pool pulling Spurs' pants down on Sunday - I think you were at the game? Must have been quite an afternoon!

Carl - to be fair, it wouldnt take much would it !

Ricky - I'm not a big Arsenal fan, especially Wenger with his 'I didnt see it' attitude when one of his players hacks the opposition down but then he moans as soon as one of his players gets fouled. Last night I wasnt bothered if they won or not but the longer the game went on and Munich were time wasting etc I wanted Arsenal to win. To be fair though, they might have won but I dont thinked they played particularly well.

Not like the mighty reds who are now in a Championship play-off spot !!

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Ricky - I fancy Arsenal to go down in glourious failure tonight, I reckon it'll be a case of close but no cigar.

 

Alright I got date wrong but I would say my prediction was pretty spot on. I've a soft spot for Arsenal so it's a bit of a shame. Pretty much the only big Premiership clubs with an ounce of class about them.

I'll stay quiet on my opinions of Liverpool for now for fear of Carl refusing to speak to me ever again. 

Spoons- Not sure what has gone on with you but hope that things are okay mate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hi all - I'm still lurking 

I had a 5x1K with 90secs recovery session yesterday with the club, and I have the results of the splits below with the distance in miles and pace in mins/mile.  I can't quite believe it, but I did a similar session 7-weeks ago (which I was really pleased with at the time) and yesterday's min/mile pace for the efforts was approximately 30-secs quicker so I am seeing some improvements which is encouraging.

Split    Time     Distance      Av Pace

1          4:14.4   0.65             6:33

2          4:15.7   0.65             6:31

3          4:08.7   0.65             6:22

4          4:09.6   0.66             6:20

5          4:03.5   0.64             6:18

Average pace: 06:24

I'm not sure what pace to try the 10K event I have planned on 24th March.  I'm thinking of going out at 07:30 and seeing how I get on?  Any thoughts?

Hi Big_G

Thanks for the tip about the routes on Garmin the other day.

My view on your 10k - those 1k split times are a tad quicker than when I run them. My plan for my half on Sunday is to run at 7:30. Therefore, I think you could look to be running your 10k at about 7:00-7:15 pace

Apologies - I am back!

Big G - Those paces would suggest about 7:15 pace / 45 minute 10km.

Hey Spoons good to have you back.

I have done my final run this week apart from a very slow 3 miler on saturday.

I did 5 miles with 3 @ HMP @ 8:03 avg the splits were 9:01 warm up 7:35 7:32 7:36 9:13 Cool down, all felt nice and comfortable. I'm off to pick up my race pack for Sunday now and lunch with Mrs O once she has finished quizzing the organisers with every question about the race she has already asked me.

It might be nearer tea time when I get to eat

Nice one guys. Carter - stretch and foam roll that calf.

Oirish - I take that back sir...... ! Somebody said we "had no chance really" - must have been Carter

Big G - those are stonking 1k splits! Well done that man.... close to 7 m/mls possible for your 10k I would have thought based on that and if you're feeling good onm the day.

Bit tired this evening but went out and did a 6 mile run incorporating a decent hill session of 10 x 250 jog down recovery.

Tomorrow is supposed to be rest day but will prob have to run my 2nd MLR as I have work and then family stuff on Saturday.

Big G - Good intervals from you. 45 mins for 10k sounds like a great target. Go for it.

Carter - good decision. Rest now and come Sunday everything will be rosy. But do what Spoons suggests as he knows best.

Oirish - Everyone is entitled to an opinion so no worries there. Good running from you today.

Loads of races going on this weekend. All very exciting.

Came home tonight to find out that I was due to go to a parents evening at the school. So I duly attended in full running gear, and got planty of strange looks.

Went running from the school gate with no route in mind but ended up getting in a decent 11 miles. Splits as follows :

8:50; 8:01; 8:01; 8:00; 7:59; 8:01; 7:56; 7:58; 7:56; 8:45; 9:18

Most important run this week is my 22 mile LSR on Saturday.

Spoons, what would you suggest I do tomorrow. Suspect that an interval session might make Saturdays LSR tougher than I want it to be.

Am really looking forward to the taper as my body is tired from all this training and needs a rest.

Ricky - sorry dd not realise you posted. Good that you got out even with you being tired. With all the training it is no wonder that some evenings the body will be saying no when the head is saying that you must go out as you have a plan to follow. Looks to me that you did the sensible thing. Best of luck with fitting the running around work and family commitments. Sometimes it would be easy to forget that we have a life to lead as well as all this training to do .....

Thanks all - yes I was pleased with those splits.  I surprised myself to be honest, and the last split was the quickest which is always encouraging.  I was shattered at the end, but I suppose that's the point

Carter - yes, I use that Garmin route finding facility quite a lot for races I haven't done before.  It's not an exact measure but it just gives me a bit of an insight into what the course is, where any major inclines/declines are etc.  You will find that the results from different watches differ slightly for the same event, but I look at 2 or 3 and kind of go for an average, or discount the ones which are obviously wrong (for example, I have seen a profile where it was -100 meters for a few miles, and then just jumped up to +1000 meters which was definitely not right...that watch must have been faulty!).

There is some strong running by everyone here.  We're getting to the business end of the training now, aren't we!  I think my target race is a bit later than some of you, and this next 3 or 4 weeks is key for me.  I have a 6-miler today, and then a 20 miler on Sunday.  Due to my 10K a week on Sunday, I have had to shuffle next week's training around a little bit.  I want to do well in my 10K, but it's not a key goal for me so I'll see how I feel on the day.

I am also wondering what to do after my May 5th marathon in terms of training.  I have a June 23rd Half Marathon for which I want to have a crack at a sub-1:40 but I'm not sure yet how I'll organise the training for the 7-weeks between the marathon and half marathon.  If anyone has thoughts on that, I'd be interested to hear advice (I know June is a long way off but I want to start thinking about it).