This week has been crap. Sleep has not happened and by the time Saturday rocked around I couldn't be bothered doing much at all besides sleeping. The heat and humidity have been a real killer which means running later in the evening and I am sure that does something to my sleep. I have to try and get up in the morning but I just don't function at 6.00 am. Maybe that's the challenge for this year, bed early and up early to run....
OK to follow on from my last post
Wednesday I did 8.6 km's off road along to the Whangarei Falls. Hot beyond all hell and I left it til latish in the day too.
Thursday is gym day with a new programme. I spent my lunch hour with a very inspiring coach who went through my current running schedule, seeing my regular coach hasn't got back to me recently....grrrrr. Anyway, I now have swimming after the gym on Tuesdays and running as well as gym on Thursday's together with lotsssssss of hills. He was amazing to talk with and very encouraging. His main piece of advice was natural surfaces and hills and only worry about time not k's and take heartrate every morning to check for proper recovery; 5-6 beats out and not recovered so take it easy. Hell that's lots of main bits of advice :-)
Friday rest day and Saturday there was supposed to be 60 mins of hills but I was knackered. WIth the lack of sleep all week it all caught up with me.
And finally today I did 1 hr 30 which was great, nice and slow in the rain. I could do these any day over the hills and harder stuff.
I would like to get faster but i guess that will come in time. Its not even a year since I started running so need to find patience....
Oh yes, I am probably going to do the Rotorua Half in March as a build up for the full and there is a fun run the week before the half which is only 9.4 k's but will be great. Might see if I cant find some speed for that run........
Showing posts with label Marathon Training. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marathon Training. Show all posts
Sunday, 28 January 2007
Monday, 15 January 2007
What a killer.....
Man, I think I could have died. Yesterday I had every intention of running 16 km being a Sunday and my long slow day. I was keen as to get out there cause I haven't done a long run since the half. I headed out just on 3 thinking that it had cooled down some, was I mistaken or what.
My coach says that the heartrate has to stay under 150 bpm on these runs, yeah right, as if.... Within 2 k's I was feeling the heat. Just as an aside, I checked my 1 km time and it was 6.22 so I wasn't going mad or anything. I had heard that the day was to be around 25 C so left the run til it appeared cooler. By the time time I got to 5km I had already stopped and walked and my heartrate was through the roof. Of course this could have been because I haven't been sleeping, so tired; or not eating properly but I had made sure I ate all good stuff on Saturday with lots of water this morning; or my fitness has dropped because of the 3 weeks I have done very little over xmas.
Anyway, I made a very wise decision and just do 10 k's. Hell, I don't know that I could have gone much further. Getting home and downing a bottle of Replace in literally one swig, quickly followed by another half bottle of water.
I checked my heartrate monitor to see what the temp was.....well guess what, it wasn't a mere 25 but 'only' had an ave of 35 with a max of 38........my godddddddd....no wonder I was dieing. I felt compeltely drained and bloody knackered for the rest of the afternoon and a tad deflated because of my great intentions being smashed....
Thinking on the bright side of it all, at least I did 10 km even if it was in a dismal time 1:17 with several walking stints added. I did, or tried to do what my coach said, and remain under 150 bpm. The ave was 154. And above all, I experienced running in heat.........not good fun!!!!! Oh and the main thing I learnt was that I have to get up early in the day and run before the heat gets a grip, but that in itself is a mission I have to work on. I am so not a morning person.
Anyway, total k's run last week were 28.5, I guess not to bad for the first week back into it, but I am worried that that is just miniscule to what I actually need to be doing. Time will tell and I have to learn patience I guess.
My coach says that the heartrate has to stay under 150 bpm on these runs, yeah right, as if.... Within 2 k's I was feeling the heat. Just as an aside, I checked my 1 km time and it was 6.22 so I wasn't going mad or anything. I had heard that the day was to be around 25 C so left the run til it appeared cooler. By the time time I got to 5km I had already stopped and walked and my heartrate was through the roof. Of course this could have been because I haven't been sleeping, so tired; or not eating properly but I had made sure I ate all good stuff on Saturday with lots of water this morning; or my fitness has dropped because of the 3 weeks I have done very little over xmas.
Anyway, I made a very wise decision and just do 10 k's. Hell, I don't know that I could have gone much further. Getting home and downing a bottle of Replace in literally one swig, quickly followed by another half bottle of water.
I checked my heartrate monitor to see what the temp was.....well guess what, it wasn't a mere 25 but 'only' had an ave of 35 with a max of 38........my godddddddd....no wonder I was dieing. I felt compeltely drained and bloody knackered for the rest of the afternoon and a tad deflated because of my great intentions being smashed....
Thinking on the bright side of it all, at least I did 10 km even if it was in a dismal time 1:17 with several walking stints added. I did, or tried to do what my coach said, and remain under 150 bpm. The ave was 154. And above all, I experienced running in heat.........not good fun!!!!! Oh and the main thing I learnt was that I have to get up early in the day and run before the heat gets a grip, but that in itself is a mission I have to work on. I am so not a morning person.
Anyway, total k's run last week were 28.5, I guess not to bad for the first week back into it, but I am worried that that is just miniscule to what I actually need to be doing. Time will tell and I have to learn patience I guess.
Wednesday, 10 January 2007
Week 16
Well, this is my first post of the new year. And my first week of training for the Rotorua Marathon (RM) 28 April. I had a wonderful break over christmas with not much happening except eating, walking on the beach with only dipping the toe in the ocean because it was too damned cold and lots of sitting in the sun sheltered from a yuk southerly wind. I do have nice tan mind you.
Anyway, first week back into it. I havent got a new schedule from my coach so just working on piecing stuff together from what I was doing and reading up on different things. This week is planned to look like this:
Monday - 40 min monitor run. What I actually did was about an hour on the treadmill at different speeds and it felt real good. I forget how good it feels when finished, all that natural buzzy stuff happening in the body.
Tuesday - walk to the gym, workout, then walk home. I live about 3.5km's from gym and never seem to find the time to walk there so jumped on the tready again for 20 mins before and 20 after nd didnt manage to stick to a walk and had to run some. My quads were sore from Monday and even sorer after my workout. Really pushed myself and again it felt great. I think the whole session took about 1.20.
Wednesday - 60 mins bush track. I baled because my quads are sore as and I am tired. First day back at work and I went too hard on Monday with that first run. It really was supposed to be easy but hell, it felt good at the time pushing myself.
Thursday - walk to the gym, workout and walk home.
Friday - rest
Saturday - speed work. 10 mins warm up then 5 min hard 5 min jog x5. I dont like this kind of thing much and would do a long slow run any day of the week over this interval stuff.
Sunday - 1hr 45 min, long slow
So thats what my week is looking like. I do wonder whether I train by time or distance. I will wait for my new programme from the coach
Anyway, first week back into it. I havent got a new schedule from my coach so just working on piecing stuff together from what I was doing and reading up on different things. This week is planned to look like this:
Monday - 40 min monitor run. What I actually did was about an hour on the treadmill at different speeds and it felt real good. I forget how good it feels when finished, all that natural buzzy stuff happening in the body.
Tuesday - walk to the gym, workout, then walk home. I live about 3.5km's from gym and never seem to find the time to walk there so jumped on the tready again for 20 mins before and 20 after nd didnt manage to stick to a walk and had to run some. My quads were sore from Monday and even sorer after my workout. Really pushed myself and again it felt great. I think the whole session took about 1.20.
Wednesday - 60 mins bush track. I baled because my quads are sore as and I am tired. First day back at work and I went too hard on Monday with that first run. It really was supposed to be easy but hell, it felt good at the time pushing myself.
Thursday - walk to the gym, workout and walk home.
Friday - rest
Saturday - speed work. 10 mins warm up then 5 min hard 5 min jog x5. I dont like this kind of thing much and would do a long slow run any day of the week over this interval stuff.
Sunday - 1hr 45 min, long slow
So thats what my week is looking like. I do wonder whether I train by time or distance. I will wait for my new programme from the coach
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