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Back on the bike

Alex — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:32:16 +0000

Had a quick 20 mile run out on saturday to see how bad my cycling legs are and surprise surprise they were pretty stiff. Got a few more miles under my belt as well on the road with a nice quick tempo run on monday evening 4.5 miles at a sniff under 7 min miles. The first time I’ve got down below the magic 7 for a while. So the pre training is nearly over and the real 16 weeks start soon.

I’m struggling to get enough sleep at times and so I’ll have to work on getting to bed earlier or getting better quality sleep. Too much tossing and turning andnot enough snoring!!!

Achoo!

Alex — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:36:45 +0000

No sooner have I set myself a suitable goal for running then I get a cold, nothing too much but enough to move me from running to not running in a matter of moments. Completely filled up to the eyeballs and working my way through tissues like the fragile economy needs and expects it.

It’ll only last a few days but there isn’t much more annoying than a cold. A minor one and I wouldn’t think twice about going out and running actually helping the cold but a heavy one like this leaves you really, well, rubbish. Chances are as well you go out, run some of it off and come back worse, so this one involves rest and cups of tea.

New Years Marathon

Alex — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:28:46 +0000

Each new year generally starts with a resolution or two. I’m not one to buck trends so have never really done any. presumably that means that i fall into the category of not being able to keep to mine. So far this year I have vowed to add in a little bit more than just radio onto this blog. Back in 2004 I entered the London Marathon and managed to complete a degree of training and stagger round in 4:30 ish. That was the result of a challenge from a brother in law. So this year I am going to recreate the uncomfortable feeling of plodding round a stupidly long run for no real gain. Armed with the bravado of knowing that the Endinburgh marathon is in may and thats months away I’m going to predict a better time that the London affair. I’m going for under 3:30.

Training starts properly on the 25th January and is going to comprise of 3 running sessions and 2 cross training sessions. The 3 running will be a speed session, tempo and long run whilst the cross training is likely to be bike based with a long ride out on the weekend to help the fred whitton riders and another session, probably revolving round commuting. Until then its increasing fitness for 4 weeks in order to be able to train!

The resolutions then is to keep reasonably good notes on this blog that remind me of progress against the plan….we’ll see how it goes.