Running Training 07/11/2016 – 13/11/2016

Week 6 has been and gone…well… it finishes today but I rested so for me its gone!  It dawned on me earlier this week that in the 5 hard weeks we had been “base building” we hadn’t run many straight forward easy runs….I have been spinning out on the exercise bike for my “easy miles” but sometimes that’s not enough and my body was screaming at me to slow down.  When you are training for a specific race you tend to put in 3 hard weeks then on the 4th week you slightly ease off to give your body a break but I have been so keen to speed up over winter that the “easier week” passed me by…. so after the Monday tempo run, the whole week was taken easy!

Monday

20 minute tempo run was on the cards for today….I wasn’t feeling too chipper first thing I must admit and all the hard sessions of late had been taking its toll but I ended up running a solid tempo run that was much better than last weeks….with two of the miles under 6 min mile pace.

Tuesday

After Monday’s session I spoke to James, who I train regularly with and we decided our bodies had enough of the hard weeks so the rest of the week would be completely easy…. we ended up doing a really nice 6 mile run around town at 8.23 ave pace at just 133bpm heart rate!! Somethings beginning to work….

Wednesday

Nothing exciting really except for spinning out some more easy miles on the exercise bike….just went for a 30 minute session and got 7.4 miles in.

Thursday

Another easy run was on the cards, this time is was 8 miles on an old route from last years winter training….again a lovely gentle run at 8.11 ave pace at just 134bpm…. by this point I realised this training was paying off.  Heart rate has never been that low at that pace before.

Friday

Rest

Saturday

Long run day!! Loving the long runs at the moment and I was joined by James…my normal training partner and James Yemm, another local runner who will be joining us more and more over the coming weeks.  We were up and out by 7.30am and did a nice easy 11 miler on much flatter terrain, compared to the normal 15 hilly miles we have been doing of late.

Sunday

Rest

Summary

Our attempts to lower our HR is working!! After 5 intense weeks training this week was a definite easy week and much needed.  Sometimes you have to listen to your body and my body was saying “no more reps”!

All in all another quality week of training and now I am ready to tackle the next block of intense work!