What a week! At the start i was aware just how much work was still required to get me to 26.2 mile endurance. At the end, i'm thinking there's even more than i thought. I mean, i am able to run 10 miles at 7m30s/mile pace. Trouble is, that's too fast. I need to start running slower :(
Week 7 (w/c 13/03/2011) schedule:
Sunday - 8 miles
Tuesday - 6 miles - speed work
Thursday - 9 miles
Saturday - 5 miles
So, in my last post i mentioned that Week 7 had already got off to a flyer, because i posted on Sunday after i'd already run my Sunday run ;)
I was supposed to run 8 miles, but i screwed up my route a little bit on the way back and ended up running 7.63m at a good 7m25s/mile pace. TOO FAST! I need to aim for somewhere in the region of 8m/mile to achieve 3.5hrs at the Marathon - although i'd settle for anything under 4 hrs. Cardo's record is defo not in danger (3h 19m, if you are interested, and i know you are not, cause he's a chopper). Anyway, i had a tight groin afterwards and my calf was a little bit sore as well, but on the whole, i'm over most of te injury problems i had during Feb, so that's a good sign :)
On to the Tuesday 6 miler, which i did on Wednesday, cause of other commitments (i was shattered on Tuesday after the mighty Gogol Bordello gig on the Monday!!) also i had a cold that was cured by the sweaty factor of the Gogol gig too :D TOP WORK COCKBURN!!
I needed to do some work at home, so i ran home at lunch at a decent pace, again 7m23s.mile. It's TOO FAST! :D sorry. Anyway, felt good after that, which included some speed work which i got into later in the run after i'd stopped hitting the fastbit on an uphill seciton!!
Again a busy time as Wed evening was c9cks birthday, a quiet pint, followed by Premier League Darts on Thursday which was an early start and a late finish. The only drawback to that night was that i walked home from Haymarket Station and aggrivated my calf a bit :( So, on Friday i had to protect it a bit, which i did. I decided on Saturday that it would be beneficial to go for a longer run and Thursday scheduled run of 9 miles looked like a possibility, so i devised an extended route and set out with good intentions....wow it was hard today!!
7m49s/mile average for the 9 mile run, well it was a little shorter than 9 miles, for some reason, but that's GPS for you! Anyway, i started out pretty quick, as you can see from the following Mile Splits:
From mile 5 to 8 you can see that it was pretty much uphill, which is a killer when its blowing a gale, which it was. I've come off the back of this with a very tight groin and that calf is still not really right, but, BUT, i'm going to take a couple of days off now, run on Tuesday next week and then see if i can do a Thursday and Saturday to keep the miles up. Maybe a 10 miler next weekend.
The Edinburgh Half Marathon is in 2 weeks time, and Mo-arch madness is calming down at the moment, so that's good too. Haddowfest will take care of itself and i'm off to run the route that i'll be running on the Marathon day itself next weekend, so i need to be right for that :)
Top work - feeling good. 1000 calories burnt this morning - not that i need to watch my intake, but it feels good as i'll be pigging out later no doubt :)
Until next week :)
PS, Cardo, i love you man.
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