Trainingsession Week Ending 8th February 2009
Monday 2nd February: Was snowing heavy and had settled, was going to do an hour with 20min tempo, but only manged to run! Still got just over an hour in which was great, and felt good but it was too dangerous to try and run fast.
Tuesday 3rd February: am: Through the night the snow had all but gone, which was good news for the track session later, and so ran 30 mins steady, felt ok and strong. Was cold but has been for weeks!
pm: Track. 2 x 8 x 100 off 15 secs rest and 3 mins between sets. Was really cold, but felt better than last week where I just couldn't get warm. Today was different, felt comfortable and strong. After the 100's had 5 mins rest and then a 600. wanted to run about 85, well thats what I would have been happy with. Decided to go out hard and see what happened. A good friend of mine was timing and I asked him to blow a whistle at 28's but I was way up though 200 so instead of slowing down, decided to run it hard the whole way and ended up with 82.5. Really pleased considering the cold and on my own. Has been a while since I have run that quick in the dead of winter!
Wednesday 4th February: 1hour steady with 20 mins tempo. Felt pretty ropey for the 1st bit of the run, so didn't go hard until 30mins was on the clock. After that I was running quite well and happy that I found a good rhythm after a bad start.
Thursday 5th February: Too much snow to get out of the drive initially (rear wheel drive car, nightmare!) I also have nowhere to run from the house, so waited to see what would happen with the weather. Ended up doing track 3 x 8 x 100 turnarounds off 15 secs and 3 mins between sets (see blog)
Friday 6th February: 30 mins steady.
Saturday 7th February: 20 mins easy
Race Heat of Irish Champs, 1st 3.52 (see race report)
Sunday 8th February: 15 mins easy
Race Irish Champs, 1st 3.43.31 (see race report)
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