Sub 3h15

Welcome Daniel. I'm a recent thread joiner myself, they're a good lot round here, and always up for giving some advice, or taking some Mick. I'm aiming for 3:15 ish at Edinburgh this year, and I'm still in the endurance phase - endless mid-week 13 milers it seems. Have you run a marathon before? I must say I could do with finding a more experienced runner to follow for a bit on the day - this will be my first full, and pacing is not my strong point.

Start off slowly, and get slower.

Daniel Hello, the more the merrier

Nice MLR Frazer and CL and Ant

6.25 at a leisurely 9:15mm, d&d.

OGL - 10 weeks on Sunday - so plenty of time yet! 20 miler before work is very impressive.
Moof - cracking reps.
SBD - nice MLR.
Frazer - good canal side run.
CL - good run - you've obviously made some progress.
Ant - another good MLR.
Welcome Daniel - good luck in Edinburgh.
FINgers - hope you enjoyed the rest.
SD - You are the new thread early bird!
Another set of fast but short intervals this morning. 3 sets of 3 x 200m off 100m recoveries with 300m between sets. Again, the aim was to do each set a bit quicker than the last. Set 1: 0:41, 0:41, 0:41. Set 2: 0:39, 0:39, 0:39. Set 3: 0:35, 0:37, 0:37. I discovered in the last set that 100m isn't a long enough recovery for flat out 200m intervals!

Gul Nice impressive reps. Very consistant indeed.

Nice MLR Frazer, CL, ANt and Scooby. Metronomic running from Gul.

just under 12 for me last night in and around 7.30mm. No obviouys hangover from weekend

Howdy Daniel - We could do with a little history, pb details age etc.

That's a tough session Gul.

I had my first massage in a couple of years last night. Oh the pain....but feels good today. 

You've just reminded me to get a sports massage OO!

Great reps Gul. The shorter recoveries will be a benefit in the end Gul. The other year I was taking too long on my recoveries.

Welcome thread newbie Daniel & Lumbu, as Mennania says a bit of background in PB's and races done would be good to know.

OO - I have had a couple of sports massages and they didn't feel painful at the time. I came away feeling decidedly shortchanged.

Sounds like a painful interval session Gul, but looks like you achieved the goal.

Rubbish run session today which I will chalk up as 'DNF'.  nuff said, and move on.

Great summary Gul - really useful considering the lack of time I, currently, have for all things running

Sometimes I hate work..............just can't seem to find any time this week. looks better next week but i have to salvage something this week. Looks like a late MLR tonight followed by an early MLR tomorrow. Far from ideal

DS2: I'm having one of those weeks as well.  Had to skip my run yesterday evening (having taken a rest day the day before...) and so will do a double today; 8M done this morning and will do 10M including 5M race this evening.  Not the best training methods, especially as tomorrow will be 15M, Saturday will be 8M and Sunday will be 23M.  How to cram most of a 70M into 4 days...

Crikey Jools - I was looking at getting around 60 into the 4 days! Good luck with that!

I was planning on a double today but just too busy. First appointment at a clients house was at 8:30am and no time lunchtime! (Note to self: Stop whinging DS2!)

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DS2: I'm having one of those weeks as well.  Had to skip my run yesterday evening (having taken a rest day the day before...) and so will do a double today; 8M done this morning and will do 10M including 5M race this evening.  Not the best training methods, especially as tomorrow will be 15M, Saturday will be 8M and Sunday will be 23M.  How to cram most of a 70M into 4 days...

Looks like we're all at it!

Easy day for me on Monday and Tuesday (after race) and enforced rest day yesterday means that I've got 15 tongiht, 13 with 9 at tempo tomorrow, 50mins Fartlek sat, and then 21 on Sunday.

Not ideal is it!

I'm feeling better already. Best I get out there tonight then!

FINgers - that looks a lot of work in a few days. Good luck! As you say, not ideal, but none of us are full time athlete's and work will always interfere with a schedule at some point, I guess!

Quite.  I'm frankly amazed I've made it from late November (I'm on the 24 week schedule, remember!) until mid-February and it's only this week things have gone really t!ts up from a work/running perspective.  Quite lucky that I'm not in the office today and tomorrow, really...

Good to see everybody relativley injury free and knocking out the training, this thread really inspires me to get out even when the CBA syndrome kicks in lol.

Errrr rest/XT day today so i went out with my mate on the road bike and knocked out 68 miles!!, feel a bit dead now after tue,wed hard sessions of running.Proper fat burn ride and didnt really eat much(few jelly beans and a tracker bar) in the 4.5 hours i was out, so all good for the fat utilisation training lol.

I'm hoping to get back to training proper tonight, at least 8 miles. Scarey schedule there Joolsa, take care.

Hi Daniel - Good place here for alot of tips about running sub-3.15.  And for the running banter you can't have with your wife!!!

Some good MLRs going on Mennania, Fraser, CL, Ant & SBD.

OGL - 20m before work is impressive.  I'd be asleep by lunchtime.

Good quick reps Gul.

Be sensible Jools.  Cramming in all of those miles will be tough.

As it looks like everyone else has been running 800m intervals I thought I'd best follow suit.  2m warm-up, 6 x 800m with 90secs recovery with 2m cooldown.  Odd numbers were downhill into the wind and even numbers uphill with a tailwind.  Splits were 2.49, 2.50, 2.51, 2.49, 2.50 & 2.48.  First proper interval session of the year, tough going but quicker than I thought.  On the bright side I was doubled over after the final rep and upon looking up I was about 3 foot from a large owl.