dotted by right royal horse manure, this was an event designed to make any passing tourist weep with joy.The 6,000 runners who turned up for Sunday's unseasonably hot 1pm start seemed pretty impressed, too. It was hard not to be. There's something oddly
100m at race pace. CYCLE 20 minutes, checking gears, tyres etc.Evening RUN: 15 minutes with 3 x 30 seconds fast strides, alternating with 60 seconds recovery jog. Sun CYCLE: Warm-up: 10-15 minutes steady. Main: 1 hour 15 minutes easy spinning
but to continue to the top. And that you’d know for sure when you reached it.Not being the best hill runner in the world, I thought I’d use some strategy. I opted for a combination of heart-rate monitoring and run/walk intervals. My thinking (and I use the term
have gone smoothly, the move up to 50K should be completely possible. The two big differences from a marathon will be: (1) youll be running for an extra hour or two; and (2) your race pace is likely to be significantly slower.If youve trained
one, walk for 30 minutes on day two and stretch for 30 minutes on day three. Try to do the activity at the same time every day: you’re more likely to stick with it. Run in a pleasant environment and focus on enjoying what you see and hear
, because of the large numbers running, it is inevitable that the sub-1:30 and sub-1:45 groups will need to go faster than target pace to make up for time lost crossing the line and congestion in the early miles.Once you've finished, showered and changed, it
minutes to go there was a good group of 15–20 of us laughing nervously in the sunshine.We broke up our little band to join the 2,500 other runners, going in small groups according to the pace we hoped to run at. There isn’t much space on the road in front
for the next 15 minutes. All of my targets had been met!The only low I felt at that point was the fact that I had not seen my wife and daughter at either of the two points where we had agreed they would be (at 11.5 miles and at the finish area near Buckingham
for this level of effort; you'll find yourself thinking, "I can do this for a while, but if I go any harder, I'm going to tire out quickly." It lies close to your 20-40K time-trial power/effort, or 10K run pace/effort.Your goal is to remain under this level
long. By mile 6-7 the sun was really beginning to pound down and along with my asthma (which is always worse in cities) I have to say I walked for about a minute. I was dissappointed as I had hoped to run at least 15 miles non-stop but I found the heat
