Wednesday, 14 October 2009

10th-16th

Saturday
ill- feeling alot better today

Sunday
60.36.....Fin 137.....Ave 137
1-113
2-107

Just a run to get back into it, took it very very easy and was thus pretty slow but it was good to get the system going again.

Monday
morning- 44.15.....Fin 139.....Ave 139
1-114
2-106
Short loop today, rushed for time

Evening- 56.59.....Fin 146.....Ave 142
1-115
2-106
felt like i was going slow but was really getting down the hills which is a massive improvment from last year (was nearly walking down them a year ago as i wasnt strong enough to take the impact and keep running)

Tuesday
Morning- 56.22.....Fin 146.....Ave 142
1-107
2-108
starting to move quite well (still not fast but feeling quite bouncy and relaxed)

evening- 50.04.....Fin 152.....Ave 154
1-125
2-114

Didnt want to push my system too hard to early so just went for a steady run and it felt good, got down the hills really quickly (felt like sonic, legs were moving very quickly, very strange)

Wednesday
morning- 54.08.....Fin 141.....Ave 143
1-116..............(this HR just wouldnt drop in the first min but i wasnt feeling to tired)
2-107

Legs feeling a little heavy from yesterday run. This felt like one of the slowest runs i have done in the last two weeks but it was prehaps one of the fastests at this Ave HR

Thursday
morning- 58.04.....Fin 145.....Ave 140
1-114
2-111

evening-(55.39min Fartlek)

-------33......25.....38.....41.....40.....13.....18.....2.59..40......43......57
------ 136.....157.....163.....165.....162.....167.....165.....152.....157.....156.....150
4.01-10.50-6.32-6.08---7.17---1.57--3.59--3.10--37------48----38----45
158.....167.....168.....177.....172.....170.....171.....176.....174.....176.....179.....176

1-135
2-120

Felt good this run, felt like i was moving pretty well and it is the furthest i have run. Didnt feel to bad after the session

Friday
legs were aching this morning

Monday, 5 October 2009

3rd-9th

Saturday
really late night and then busy through out the day so found no time to run

Sunday
1hr 45.35.....running well up to 70min
70-80min- started to slow
after 80min= legs started to ache quite a bit and running became uncomfortable

Monday
Morning- 44.06.....Late night so feeling quite tired this morning so did the short route and ran very slowly.

Evening
52.36.....Fin 149.....Ave 143
1-110
2-109

Tuesday
Morning- 56.27.....Fin 142.....Ave 143
1-114
2-108

evening-came acros really tired and with cold like symptoms

Wednesday
Thursday
Friday

ill for the rest of the week, just felt permantly tired with major head aches

1st-2nd

Thursday
53min steady slow jog in the morning

Didnt train in evening as its still freshers week so went out early

Friday

rest

Wednesday, 30 September 2009

26th-30th

saturday
53.10.....Fin 145.....Ave 143
1-114
2-115

Just a easy jog to get back into running and fitt around fresher activities and getting to know people.

Sunday
6km adlershot relys
23.06
really struggled on this, running didnt feel easy and my pace was far to sparadic speeding up without effort and then suddenly slowing.

Monday
30min Farlek

............50.......40......44......32.......24......53.......15.......11
...........136.....118.....147.....158....165....142.....174.....180
3.34...4.19....5.56...3.18...3.54...2.03.....39.......23.......17
170.....173.....175....171.....177.....170.....170.....171.....176

1-135
2-122
Feeling pretty comfortable up to about 4-5mins and then slowed and probabaly started to go into stress a little. Will work just to ease out the reps for a bit longer.

Tuesday
morning-53.34.....Fin 140.....Ave 144
2-106

Evening- 48.09.....Fin 153.....Ave 159
1-125
2-118
Took a good 30mins to the HR to remian steady, Ran with the group and was at the back again but im sure the front runners must have been pushing really hard!
I did find running at this quite uncomfortable and unusal though.

Wednesday
morning- 54mins rounds woods

Have lost HR elestic strapso will be running on feel for a week and a bit till my replacement comes

evening- gentle circuits to ease back into things

Tuesday, 22 September 2009

19th- 25th

Saturday
Rest- Family came round, The Last supper before my cousin and I go of to uni.

Sunday
3hr cycle with dad, last 30min, thighs really started to burn going up the hills

Monday
20min rowning machine
( groin mostly better now, have been stretching it every day and doing stability work on it, just lacking a bit of motivation to go out and run hard this last week as ive been sorting things out for uni which has taken up the last 4days ( my lap top hrad drive burnt out ((3days after my warinty ran out)) so been having to reinstall EVERYTHING!!!

Will start running properly once back at uni on thusrday...can then consintrate


Tuesday
9x300m (track)

---......51......52......66.......66.......70.......64......63.......67
---.....151.....169.....159.....164.....166.....167.....178.....175
52.......50.....48.....49......49.......48.......49......48......49
---.....182.....173.....---.......---.....186.......---.....178.....182

2-135

Legs were starting to feel really heavy on the 8th and 9th rep and HR was not reducing much on the recoveries. Groin was also starting to get tight so decided to call it a day

Wednesday
56.26.....Ave 144.....Fin 149

2-113

Just a gentle jog to get me back into the idea of running for this period of time. Uncomfortable to begin with, groin tight from yesterday but got into the run after 30mins

Thursday

Traveling back up to uni and then night out

Friday

56.26.....Fin 149.....Ave 144

1-121
2-111

12th-18th

Saturday
southern Road relys, wimbldon road.

16.45sec, 2mins faster than i ran last year and just over 1min slower than Hawkins.
Found his really hard, went of to fast, i thought (at the time) that it was slow and comfortable so i cruised alongside the leading group, but after about 8mins i died compltly i got up a steep hill and lasted about another 2mins before my pace really suffered. Worst part of the race was running after a long steep down hill, i couldnt get back into a rythem. Legs were knackerd after the race! Body was not expecting this!

Sunday
Groin still tight, and yesterdays punding down hill probabaly didnt help. #
Sawm 70 lengths in 45mins.

Monday
Swam 110 length in 1hr 15mins

Tuesday
Aqua Running with hawkins
5x3min (3min)
5x2min (1min)

Wednesday
Gym- leg weights with friend, relatively light weights with lots of reps. (multi gym)

Thursday
35min on rowing machine- ave HR 138

Friday
rest

5th-11th

Saturday
40min steady/slow jog

Sunday
rest

Monday
rest

Tuesday
couple of 200 and 300m strides in about 30sec and 43seconds. Also did 3 fast strides of 60m on grass

Wednesday
Watford 800m- 1.58.01
Good sprint finsih, but got caught in the middle of the group, really poor start by me and had a lot of work to do to catch up

Thursday
wanted to train but hip, which i then diagoned as a groin strain was really tight after the race yesterday so just jogged (slowly to the track)

Friday
rest