Half Marathon Training - Week 6 Update

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Hello Blogglings :-)

Well week 6 has now passed and to be honest it wasnt a great week.  It was a strange week with a lot of things happening which are best consigned to the past where they belong.

Training totals for this week?  Running - 14.5 miles, gym - nil, food - tons!! So week 7 needs to see a vast improvement.  The running will be okay as I think I will be able to manage the weekly totals.  The gym?  Well I am going to have to make an effort to shift my Bessy Bunter backside up there and get some strength training done.  Food?  Well that will need to be a concentrated zip the mouth shut effort.  Now I know that during training you should make sure you are fueled and hydrated properly (I am such a geek) but inhaling every bit of food in sight is not really the answer.  I really need to stop buying Leerdammner cheese (its the devils food) and stop eating what I bake.  I wont stop baking, it just means I can force feed someone else into eating it mwah ha ha ha.

Oh and last week, I managed to squeeze a Parkrun in.  It is the course from hell.  I hate it but love it at the same time.  Well the love part is really after I have finished and I am sitting in The Burrell with a cup of coffee in my hand :-)  Seriously though, the start is like a pack of wild animals stampeding down the road.  I dont think cattle make us much noise as 300+ runners going all out to improve on their times.  It does get scary and demoralising when your 3/4 of the way round your first lap and some lanky legged whippet races past you as they are about 300 metres from the finish.  Now bear in mind the scary finish times are in the 16/17 minute brackets *sob*.  The nice part about Parkrun is running with old and new friends alike.  At the last 2 runs, I have met 2 lovely people who I got chatting to at the end while we were waiting to have our barcodes scanned.  That's the lovely thing about running.  Its simple to do, a pair of decent trainers and off you go, and you get to meet some lovely like minded people who all have the same outlook to their hobby :-)

Till next week :-)

Kimbles
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Half Marathon Training - Week 5 Update

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I am now at the end of week 5 of my half marathon training.  This means that its 8 weeks today until gun time waaaahhhh!!


This week hasnt exactly been a rockin' experience.  Training has been very lax (assumes position for a swift kick in the derriere).  Monday was a visit to the gym to do some strength training and it went really well.  Tuesday was the scheduled 4 mile run and it was okay but nothing to shout about.  I felt as if I was struggling. The route wasnt great either, as I felt I was struggling to find ways to add an extra 1/2 mile onto my current route.  Wednesday I didnt go to the gym, as other stuff came up and Thursday I felt tired and decided to take a day off from running.  Saturday's gym session was replaced with a trip to Edinburgh to meet up with some peeps from a forum I post on.  It was a good day but by god heels dont have kill your calves and feet.  My wee feetsies were feeling it when I got home.  


And that brings me to today's scheduled long run.  Meh is all I can say about that.  6 miles of hardship let me tell you.  I was feeling a bit tired and was a tad dehydrated.  Its runs like this that I wish I had wheelie trainers instead of normal ones.  My pace management sucks as well - bah.  Long runs are supposed to be slow and steady and mine are....well over th place!!!  No wonder I felt as if I had ran a marathon rather than a piddly 6 miles.  


Ho hum - tomorrow is another week!  Till next time my little blogglings :-)

Kimbles
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Training Update

Well here is my next update.  Okay so its a bit late again :-)

Last Saturday (29th Jan) seen me attend Glasgow Parkrun for the first time in 2011 and it was also the first time I had attended in months!  The course is quite hard and is good for training.  The morning was cold and in fact when the run started, it was hovering around the -1C mark - bbrrrr.  To say it was busy on this occassion would be an understatement.  The Glasgow run broke its attendance record again with 370 people taking part.  It was like a stampeed of cattle taking off at the start!  I actually find it difficult to run early in the morning.  Race days are fine but Parkrun always kills me lol.  Once I was in my stride though I was okay and completed in 33:19.  Not a blistering time and not a PB either but its a start.

I never got out to do my long run on Sunday as part of my training plan, so on Monday I headed to the gym for a workout.  I managed to do a cardio and weights session but my mind wasnt on the ball and I didnt feel the usual high you get from working out. 

Tuesday seen me heading out for my 3.5 mile easy run.  It was a bit chilly and breezy but I felt fab afterwards.  The Garmin is doing the job nicely of keeping me within pace zone and tracking my distance :-)  Wednesday was another gym session and after this one I felt fab.  An hour of cardio and weights again!  

So far this week, Thursday and Friday have been rest days.  I wasnt able to head out for a run as the weather has been truly awful with gale force winds and driving rain.  However on Saturday I will be back up the gym "pumpin' iron" lol.  I will however have to coordinate this with the schedule of housework, watching the 6 nations rugby (2 games) and my Tesco delivery :-)