Hello!

Well this is my first blog on runnerslfe.co.uk and I hope I write something of interest. To those that don't know me - I do track, cross-country and road, but I'm best on the roads - well, I'm best at long stuff, which happens on the roads!

I had the AAA 10,000m last week, which went ok. I was hoping to challenge my PB of 29.40, but even though I went through halfway in 14.45, I found myself in a group of 4 and the pace seemed to change a bit, and we lost some time with some slower laps. I think we all tried to keep the pace going but it wasn't to be in the end and I ended up with 29.52. Since then I've been doing steady running and will be looking to hit some bigger volumes of 90-110 mile weeks for a few weeks, with the World Trials for the half marathon in September, and ultimately a marathon in November in Florence. I'll still be running some 5ks on the track this summer but won't be focusing on it particularly with my training.

In terms of my training, it's pretty simple - as you'll see from my training logs when I put one up, and is pretty much all along he canals in London, which is good running, but gets pretty boring. There are a few parks along the canal as well, but all very out and back, but good for marathon training with it being flat and hard, so can't complain really. I do decent (but not massive) mileage and lots of tempo running with a mix of sessions and hills also. I usually run about 10 times a week, and steady runs range form 6-6.45 min miling, completely depending on how I feel.

Right, I'm at work, and we've just won the cricket so I'm going to do some work, but hopefully that was a good intro. I don't want to bore you all from the start.

Byeeee!