Over 60s training.

 Eastcourt Strand

 

Good Morning,

No rain so far today, maybe the day will pass by with none being recorded.

Mick6
I see you have snow now. I have been reading a report from my brother's last cruise which started in UK, onward to NY and Boston followed by the rest of the trip being along the coast of Canada. I found it all so interesting, there were lots of photos too.

Tracey
How were your niggles when you ran last evening?

NZC
I am not so techie efficient as Mick6 and actually like to be totally in
control of my intervals. Therefore, I stop my watch every time I have reached the distance required. Then time my recovery and again restart it for the next interval, this does take up a lot of space on the history of the Garmin, but sometimes, i like a longer recovery and occasionally a shorter time than earlier plan. It works well on the track, but not to good when the distance or time is guess work. However, I have, over time, developed a very good judgement of distance. I think that has come from a lot of work on the track. So when I think I am about to reach the distance I take a quick peep at my watch. I am never more than a very few meters out. But of course Mick6's 'proper' ways is better!!!!!



I shall be doing a short run this morning.


At the weekend my daughter in law did a 15 mile Charity walk over the South Downs in aid of Genetic Disorders. Jeans for Genes (Because of Betsy). It took around 4.45mins, without a single stop. My son went along long as well to make sure she didn't get lost!!!! They encountered rain, hail, sun, more rain and a beautiful rainbow altogether with MUD! I have seen the photos and MUD was a huge factor. It looked like they walked along a deep muddy stream! But walk as completed with success.

Good morning

5.10M; 1:05:36.4; 12:52/M; 6°C

A bit better than yesterday but not much. Anyway, I'm beginning to think that what's important is the mileage not the speed. I'm also beginning to wonder whether it's now time to dump the shorts (they're wearing out anyway) and get into tights. Maybe warmer legs will be better performers.

al

 

Aws
That is more like it. The pace starts with a 12. An hour's training is worth a lot.

Ceal - congratulation to your daughter in law

My hamstring was ok at that pace thou legs were tired and it was windy last night. Having a rest day today and then tomorrow I'm going to do my 4 mile route.

Tracey
Thanks. The progress being made by your hamstring is looking encouraging.

Ceal - I just have to watch the pace of my runs. Cutting down on my shredding but will keep it up for strength and core work. Doing Santa Run with Andre on Sunday Will be making Friday my long run day as its easier when Andre's at school plus it will give me 2 rest days between Tuesday's club run. Plan to shred on Wednesday and Sunday's

Tracey
Sounds a sensible plan.

I would have run on Friday but am going to Barking Road Runners Christmas party on Friday. Will be the same the following we as its my clubs Christmas party.

Tracey
Lots of party's.

aws
I agree with you about putting on running tights if the weather continues like today. You must have found it very cold earlier this morning. I put on my 3/4 ones this morning.  

I set out for an easy run and couldn't get going, I found it rather cold, the wind was very cold making the chill factor lower than the actual temp of 5c. My hands never got warm and the thought of winter runner doesn't fill me with much enthusiasm at all. It will be cold in the Park on Friday too. Also, I did get a bit wet too. The weather just can't seem to resist throwing down some rain.   

Anyway, I ran only for 3.4 miles with 4 x 100's thrown in, which I did enjoy. I had walk back recoveries and only ran them at 90% effort except the last one where I gave it a bit of welly in 19 secs, the others were around 21 secs. .    

Ceal-Think your right about trying to get motivated during the winter,its a struggle sometimes.Good you enjoyed those 100's it's a distance i/ve never really done

Mick6-Nice a masterclass in the use of garmins,

Went and done a pyramid workout at the track last night which was,400s 600s 800s 1k 800s 600s 400s with 200m recovery between a sort of walk jog affair.

Ran a fairly even pace overall the 400s 1.40/1.41 600s 2.21/2.23 800s 3.16/3.15 the 1k 4.10 although i hadn't run since thursday last the legs didn't seem that fresh

Ceal - it's even harder motivating yourself to do long runs.

Afternoon

Aws/Ceal it was bitterly cold as i cycled home at 6am it was also bitterly cold the cold that feels its biting your face as i cycled in last night  yet i saw a man run un shorts didn't know whether to call him brave or Daft

As for intervals on Garmins when i used the track i did it the ceal way as asy to tell ditance on track otherwise  i do it the Mick way nce programmed in its there for as long as you need it

 

Last night for a few nights still going to busy over them.

ceal, well done to your daughter in law (and son) for the walk in those conditions.

NZC, I've programmed a few sessions for my garmin using Training Center, and found it quite easy to do. It was useful when we were doing the run/walk sessions with our beginners, as it can be programmed for time only. There are complete training plans that you can download from RW and then import too.

Will definitely be layering up for running tonight, it is feeling very nippy. No rain today though, thank heavens. Even worse on a bike, from what my husband tells me.

Hope Mrs JJ enjoys her new car - sure she will.

Diana -hate to say this but your husbands right

 

Who's running LFOTM?

Thanks everyone for your tips re my Garmin.

Ceal - good work getting out there when it is so cold, and great 100s. Well done to your daughter-in-law and your son - that was some walk!

Busbar - great track work - you are pretty fast!

I've used my Garmin 3 times now, and all with pretty pitiful results! Most of my runs are shorter than I thought, therefore I am slower than I thought, and I already thought I trained slow! Can't quite work out how I manage to run as fast as I do in my races compared to my training!

Yesterday's run with my friends was 8.9km 55.38 ave HR 140 max HR 170

I'm looking forward to doing some intervals with it, but I'm feeling a bit dizzy this morning, so not sure if it is going to be today. Maybe tomorrow.

Aws - where is Eastcourt? - Almost monochrome, that picture.

That was a long walk your d-i-l did. Did she raise much for Jeans for Genes? (Did she wear jeans for the walk?)

Turning much colder here. Anyone not wearing long warm tights is as Pammie says brave or daft. Also as Pammie says, "the sort of cold that feels as though it's biting your face" - I know just what you mean!

NRD. Was working. Drove back from Aberystwyth behind a gritter. (Not all the way).

Oh btw the result came out for my track 3000m that I ran on 18th Nov - 13.39 

I was summoned last week to my GP for one of the check-ups I get every so often. Got the blood test results today and no worries so I suppose I've got no excuse for not running.

For Garmin intervals I change to metric and simply press the lap button at  .4k or .6k or whatever distance is required. You can of course use time instead. If a "lap" turns out to be, say, 410m it's easy to divide the time by 410 and mulltiply by 400 to get the 400m time.

Ceal
Good result for your d-in-l and a very good charity to support. MrsJJ's school used to have a day's fund raising for them every year.

NZC
Hope you're pleased with the 3k time. I would be.

Tracey
Busy, busy girl.

Diana
MrsJJ is well pleased.
JJ