End of week report

Posts have been a bit thin on the ground due to time constraints. My training this week has consisted of the Great North Run on Sunday, a relatively easy session on Tuesday and a 20 mile run yesterday. I’m feeling a little bit stiff today!

Summer Holidays

Finding time to train and blog in the school summer holidays is always a challenge. This week I’ve managed to squeeze in a 400 X 12 interval session and a 16 mile run. The last one-and-a-half miles of the 16 miler were very tough going.

Starting to get serious

Intervals

What a difference a day makes

Yesterday I struggled to run two-and-a-half miles at a very sluggish pace. Tonight I ran fourteen and felt great. Life is like that sometimes.

When your body (and your HRM) is telling you to take a day off

Training has been going well and I’ve been making slow but steady progress. At least I had been until I attempted some interval training yesterday. On Saturday I’d improved on my best Parkrun time by a colossal 4 seconds and was feeling that all was well with the world.

An interval target pace of 07:23 min/mile was always going to be challenging while running on sand, with a stiff breeze and what passes for a hot day in South Shields. But I didn’t realise just how far off the mark I was going to be. The mind was willing but my legs just wouldn’t go any faster. The next training session in my diary is a 13 miler; I think I’d better take a few days off before then.

12 miler (with a couple of quick dips in the North Sea)