Experimented with no days off after the race and did actually have less muscle soreness compared with just rest - so this is the 'active rest' I guess,,, i did 1, 2, 3 miles in the 3 days following... so with 2 the day b4 the race, that's quite a lot of running, lol, in 5 days...
Have been coming off diazepam which makes it harder i think... I was put on it in hospital and have been on a small maintenance dose ever since (3 years)...
I am hoping that without it I will be a better runner, but I intend to improve anyway, so I won't know ;-)
Going on a cycle ride tomorrow with my sister, weather could be dry... should be great!
Wednesday 29 July 2009
Sunday 26 July 2009
6 Moor Miles
Hi,
Fantastic race!! It was cold and starting to rain at the start, my fiance and I got small cups of tea... then time to start, i put myself at the back and said - i will prob be last! out of all these people - god how awful! there were more than 400 race numbers...
but i didn't mean it! my fiance said he didn't want me to be last - incase i got upset, or felt bad about it but i was last, and i don't feel bad
I started right at the back with 2 other runners, but i could tell from the off that they would beat me, because of their running styles and pace, i easily kept up with them for about 2 miles, running and chatting about past and future races and runs, one person had only done 4 miles previously, 10k was my max and this was more than 6 miles on Dartmoor, so I knew it was also the furthest I had ever run - my garmin told me by how much - about 250 meters - at the end!
I let the other runners drift away from me, putting this race with comfortable effort was important to me because I have another 10 k coming up in 2 weeks and not a lot of leeway with increases up until 1st November's half Marathon...
So when my heart rate went up higher than i've seen it I backed off - and then kept to 186 - 176 LOL for the rest of the race!
Surprising how much one can push oneself if the mood is right, - it was a very well marshalled course and the runner at the back was wearing a turtle suit, that must have got very heavy and wet because it was absolutely pouring with rain - i texted my fiance far too early to get out of the car and get to the finish line, I should have texted him again to get some shelter, but my time for 6.42 miles was 1:28:41 and my previous 10k two years ago last time i was a runner was 1:34:29.
So I smashed my time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but I have the real challenge ahead of me doing the same course again - a hilly 10 k in 4 weeks time.... which is even more hilly but a little shorter i think, it is one massive up hill climb followed by a nice long sloping downhill...
The 6 moor miles course took us up and down some great slopes and wasn't that muddy, most of it was near gorse or ferns, winding it's way around and a part of it was a short way through a small forrest, the views were beautiful, if misty with rain...
Having run very nearly half a marathon, I feel confident for the first time about the distance... I will have to see how i go this week but will hopefully run 7 miles at the weekend... see how my legs feel!!!!
Fantastic race!! It was cold and starting to rain at the start, my fiance and I got small cups of tea... then time to start, i put myself at the back and said - i will prob be last! out of all these people - god how awful! there were more than 400 race numbers...
but i didn't mean it! my fiance said he didn't want me to be last - incase i got upset, or felt bad about it but i was last, and i don't feel bad
I started right at the back with 2 other runners, but i could tell from the off that they would beat me, because of their running styles and pace, i easily kept up with them for about 2 miles, running and chatting about past and future races and runs, one person had only done 4 miles previously, 10k was my max and this was more than 6 miles on Dartmoor, so I knew it was also the furthest I had ever run - my garmin told me by how much - about 250 meters - at the end!
I let the other runners drift away from me, putting this race with comfortable effort was important to me because I have another 10 k coming up in 2 weeks and not a lot of leeway with increases up until 1st November's half Marathon...
So when my heart rate went up higher than i've seen it I backed off - and then kept to 186 - 176 LOL for the rest of the race!
Surprising how much one can push oneself if the mood is right, - it was a very well marshalled course and the runner at the back was wearing a turtle suit, that must have got very heavy and wet because it was absolutely pouring with rain - i texted my fiance far too early to get out of the car and get to the finish line, I should have texted him again to get some shelter, but my time for 6.42 miles was 1:28:41 and my previous 10k two years ago last time i was a runner was 1:34:29.
So I smashed my time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but I have the real challenge ahead of me doing the same course again - a hilly 10 k in 4 weeks time.... which is even more hilly but a little shorter i think, it is one massive up hill climb followed by a nice long sloping downhill...
The 6 moor miles course took us up and down some great slopes and wasn't that muddy, most of it was near gorse or ferns, winding it's way around and a part of it was a short way through a small forrest, the views were beautiful, if misty with rain...
Having run very nearly half a marathon, I feel confident for the first time about the distance... I will have to see how i go this week but will hopefully run 7 miles at the weekend... see how my legs feel!!!!
Tuesday 14 July 2009
Garmin
Have been using a heart rate belt and keeping to about 157, which seems to be conversational pace and sustainable... I am not sure if i have the basic understanding here or not, but my runs vary from 12.5 - 16 min mile pace... and usually the 16 min mile pace is on hills so i get a higher hr, say up to 170. I tried to get my hr up as high as i could once and only got to 184 and my resting hr seems to be quite high - so not a big range - about 84.
Had a bit of a shock after a 6 mile run to see that i had burned 1180 kcal - that cant' be right, I will have to check my settings in case I altered my profile by accident in the rain the other day... well it was a bit high left over from carrying weights the other day for a short while but not excessive - so don't know if i have a running total going on here... but my Garmin has never done that before - it just gives a figure for that day...
it was further faster longer stronger and generally better than most runs but then most of it was down a gentle incline... so how is that possible?
Had a bit of a shock after a 6 mile run to see that i had burned 1180 kcal - that cant' be right, I will have to check my settings in case I altered my profile by accident in the rain the other day... well it was a bit high left over from carrying weights the other day for a short while but not excessive - so don't know if i have a running total going on here... but my Garmin has never done that before - it just gives a figure for that day...
it was further faster longer stronger and generally better than most runs but then most of it was down a gentle incline... so how is that possible?
Friday 10 July 2009
Reykjavic Marathon
For a lot of reasons, I have decided £1600 is a lot to go to charity for a day out in London where I grew up
I am going to Reykjavic next year, August 21st instead, where the money will pay for flight, hotels for me and my fiance and also, this money so far was raised by asking family only and we are all saving for it... so it will still go towards my first marathon - I will run it for the charity I work for then - asking friends for 5 ers and 10 ers and the people i work with etc.
there was barely enough time to fit in the training, and this way I will have all the recommended mileage properly behind me before i start the 19 week or 20 week marathon training schedule...
therefore giving me less chance of injury...
I am very excited and liberated by this decision... I will no longer have to hand in all that money just before the taper - which, my physio told me is a time when a lot of people get injured - which would have put a lot of pressure on as well...
I hope that I can continue training with the mileage buildup to a half marathon and then stay at that level until marathon training...
I am going to Reykjavic next year, August 21st instead, where the money will pay for flight, hotels for me and my fiance and also, this money so far was raised by asking family only and we are all saving for it... so it will still go towards my first marathon - I will run it for the charity I work for then - asking friends for 5 ers and 10 ers and the people i work with etc.
there was barely enough time to fit in the training, and this way I will have all the recommended mileage properly behind me before i start the 19 week or 20 week marathon training schedule...
therefore giving me less chance of injury...
I am very excited and liberated by this decision... I will no longer have to hand in all that money just before the taper - which, my physio told me is a time when a lot of people get injured - which would have put a lot of pressure on as well...
I hope that I can continue training with the mileage buildup to a half marathon and then stay at that level until marathon training...
Thursday 9 July 2009
My training schedule
I have decided to attatch my adjusted schedule - I am doing 8 day instead of 7 day weeks and making the 8th day a rest day - slotted in so that i don't have to run 3 days in a row...
In addition I have 4 'spare' weeks which i can slot in any time i need some time out or possibly, if everything goes well the whole time - I can just repeat a 4 week stretch or take time after my half marathon...
I hope that someone can take a look at it and give me some comments - my physio is not cheap and talks a lot but she has said that this looks like a lot of miles - so can i get away with less than this??
Having difficulties with adding a link, if possible can you press this link and go to the bit on the post that says 'Mileage Buildup and Marathon Training Schedules'
This is also a link - it's at the bottom of the third post!!!!
http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=messages&webtag=ab-running&tid=4956
Thanks
In addition I have 4 'spare' weeks which i can slot in any time i need some time out or possibly, if everything goes well the whole time - I can just repeat a 4 week stretch or take time after my half marathon...
I hope that someone can take a look at it and give me some comments - my physio is not cheap and talks a lot but she has said that this looks like a lot of miles - so can i get away with less than this??
Having difficulties with adding a link, if possible can you press this link and go to the bit on the post that says 'Mileage Buildup and Marathon Training Schedules'
This is also a link - it's at the bottom of the third post!!!!
http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=messages&webtag=ab-running&tid=4956
Thanks
Tuesday 7 July 2009
16 mile week
The MBT light jogging is going well, I am 'warming up' for half a mile, light jogging with weights, then changing shoes stretching and carrying on my run...
I cool down at the end by walking and stretching again...
I have had a great time changing shoes and trying a different running style and having a 'break' on some of my muscles very near the start of my run lol
I will increase gradually... and will keep to half a mile at the beginning of every run to start with especially because of my increase to 5 day weeks next week...
This last week I did a training run of 5 miles which was hilly and slow but actually (if I had been able to keep up same pace for one more mile) was exactly my race speed for my hilly race that is coming up... for my upcoming 2x 6 mile/10k races I hope I will be able to keep going at a training pace so that I will have no chance of missing much training...
I have also covered more than 1.5 miles more running than ever in a 4 week period, and more miles than ever in a week by 1
I ran 16 miles this week, 57 in 4 weeks and 63 in a month
I cool down at the end by walking and stretching again...
I have had a great time changing shoes and trying a different running style and having a 'break' on some of my muscles very near the start of my run lol
I will increase gradually... and will keep to half a mile at the beginning of every run to start with especially because of my increase to 5 day weeks next week...
This last week I did a training run of 5 miles which was hilly and slow but actually (if I had been able to keep up same pace for one more mile) was exactly my race speed for my hilly race that is coming up... for my upcoming 2x 6 mile/10k races I hope I will be able to keep going at a training pace so that I will have no chance of missing much training...
I have also covered more than 1.5 miles more running than ever in a 4 week period, and more miles than ever in a week by 1
I ran 16 miles this week, 57 in 4 weeks and 63 in a month
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