Training has been going great out here. It's a different type of training to what I was doing back in May. Then it was very specific for the start of the summer but this time round it's just a case of getting plenty of running done and some tempo and hills to get strong.

I hadn't really done a great deal up to my last blog but in terms of quick running, since then I've done a nice 'steady' 55minute hill run which was on Saturday. I found a good up and down area and really got into the run and worked the hills. I started off at 54000ft and got up round 6000 at one point so the legs got a real workout!

I started off at a low down car park and ran through the woods on a gradual incline then went up over a very steep hill. I slowly worked my way down and then again went up another climb at 6.5mile to really give the legs a burn. Then I finished off nice and relaxed down the road back to the car. For the run I think I averaged 6:10 pace which was good on the up and downs.

Sunday was a nice long run to take my weekly mileage up to 75 which is good for this time of year and will now give me the chance to increase that over the next few weeks leading into Kenya and Monday was just a couple steady runs to get some more miles in. On Tuesday I did a threshold run around the lake here. I had 40minutes to do. I probably over cooked this a little as my average pace was a bit too fast at 5:20's rather then 5:30's. Even at 25 years old i'm still learning all the time about training and that was a shock to my legs because it's something I haven't done much of at all in recent years. My tempos/thresholds have always been 15, 20mins, sometimes building up to 30mins but now they are getting longer and it's a totally different approach, especially at altitude! It's good though because that is what is holding me bac

k at the moment in 5k upwards. So i'm looking forward to running the next threshold next week where I can relax a bit more and not over cook it.

Other than those two fast runs i've not really done much else of interest running wise. Last week I went down the track with a few of the lads and video'd them doing some drills and core. I thought I might as well edit it together and send it to the Athleticos lads and make it a feature on the site as it's quite interesting. Some of the drills i've not done myself so I integrated them into my plan last night.