Week Ending Sun 1st Nov - 38 miles
Mon 26 Rest. 40 min bike ride, easy.
Tue 27 6 miles easy along the footpath.
Wed 28 7 miles easy Sefton Park/Carnatic from sports centre.
Thu 29 6 miles. 1 easy, 3@HM, 2 easy.
Fri 30 Rest
Sat 31 4 miles easy with a few 100m sprints.
Sun 01 15 miles. Plan for today was to do 1 easy, 13 @ HM, 1 easy. In the end we only managed marathon pace for the 13, and it's left me more knackered than I was last week after 21. It's bizarre. Not sure if this is the combined effect of a hard workout 2 weeks on the run just today's conditions, because I've never managed to do last week's and this week's exercise in tandem yet. I've done either one or the other, but I've never managed both.
I had high hopes that it would work this time, unfortunately the weather didn't help. In complete contrast to last week, when conditions were just about perfect, today they were completely the opposite. This morning we woke up to nothing short of a monsoon. We knew it was going to happen, so we'd decided to go out mid-morning, when the conditions would be at their least damaging. We'd been promised 50mph winds this afternoon and there is little point in attempting a fast pace in that unless you happen to be Wonder Woman. Earlier on the winds should have been no more than 35mph but we'd have driving rain. We went out at 9.30am when the rain had sort of slowed down. Unfortunately by then the roads were like rivers, with the water about an inch deep even on some of the pavements. Since the wind was up to about 35mph in the open, we tried to stay within built up areas as much as we could, but then you have all the crossroads, driveways and masses of leaves. It was more like training for xc than road running, lol. And the wind was fierce. I take heart in the fact that we still managed to stay well under 8' miles on average given the conditions, but we did clock a couple of 8'10"s and 8'15"s and only 3 or 4 7'30"s.
I'll be glad for the nice easy long run next week.
Tue 27 6 miles easy along the footpath.
Wed 28 7 miles easy Sefton Park/Carnatic from sports centre.
Thu 29 6 miles. 1 easy, 3@HM, 2 easy.
Fri 30 Rest
Sat 31 4 miles easy with a few 100m sprints.
Sun 01 15 miles. Plan for today was to do 1 easy, 13 @ HM, 1 easy. In the end we only managed marathon pace for the 13, and it's left me more knackered than I was last week after 21. It's bizarre. Not sure if this is the combined effect of a hard workout 2 weeks on the run just today's conditions, because I've never managed to do last week's and this week's exercise in tandem yet. I've done either one or the other, but I've never managed both.
I had high hopes that it would work this time, unfortunately the weather didn't help. In complete contrast to last week, when conditions were just about perfect, today they were completely the opposite. This morning we woke up to nothing short of a monsoon. We knew it was going to happen, so we'd decided to go out mid-morning, when the conditions would be at their least damaging. We'd been promised 50mph winds this afternoon and there is little point in attempting a fast pace in that unless you happen to be Wonder Woman. Earlier on the winds should have been no more than 35mph but we'd have driving rain. We went out at 9.30am when the rain had sort of slowed down. Unfortunately by then the roads were like rivers, with the water about an inch deep even on some of the pavements. Since the wind was up to about 35mph in the open, we tried to stay within built up areas as much as we could, but then you have all the crossroads, driveways and masses of leaves. It was more like training for xc than road running, lol. And the wind was fierce. I take heart in the fact that we still managed to stay well under 8' miles on average given the conditions, but we did clock a couple of 8'10"s and 8'15"s and only 3 or 4 7'30"s.
I'll be glad for the nice easy long run next week.