Injured

Following tonights 75 min threshold run out to Hillgrounds and Kempston I've finally had to concede to some rest. Whilst the left leg is much better, the right is worse.

Give it a week and see where we are.

Quick Roundup wc 19/01/15

Three sessions this week, nothing on Monday as that was set aside for a bit of Folksworth recovery. Tuesday was an easy one in preparation for Wednesdays track; that was hard but enjoyable and I was pleased to run the 800 reps at less than 6m/m. Sunday was the first 20m of the year, now that was a little tough. I think I should have take a gel or two as I was flagging from about 16 onwards.

Quick Roundup wc 12/01/15

First race of the year, went so much better that expected.

2015 Folksworth 15

Race 

Garmin stats 

 Time
1:39:47

Age graded position 6

Previous running

2012
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Results
Folksworth 2015 complete results 

Bedford Harriers Awards Night

Just a couple of awards this year. Just pipped at the post; last-minute for senior 3rd place marathon but still got MV45 marathon.

2014 Road Race Championship... Only Third, Still, Jerry is a worthy winner, third year running and Steve is in a class of his own.

I was very surprised to get 3rd  - well pleased with that.

3x 3 1/2 mins /90 secs R

Better night tonight. Ran Abbeyfields/Mile Rd Loop

Rep	Pace	Average
1	6:49.0
2	6:51.0
3	6:34.0
4	6:33.0	1-5
5	6:30.0	6:39.4
6	6:38.0
7	6:31.0
8	6:26.0
9	6:31.0	5-10
10	6:20.0	6:29.2

And a negative split too.

3x 3 miles / 3 mins R

Not too bad.

Mile	Mile Split	Set Time	Pace
1 - CW	00:07:06
2	00:07:13
3	00:06:15	00:20:34	00:06:55
4 - ACW	00:07:00
5	00:06:29
6	00:06:14	00:19:43	00:06:38
7 - CW	00:06:36
8	00:07:14
9	00:06:09	00:19:59	00:06:44
Total	01:00:16
8.91

Quick Roundup wc 050115

Another reasonable week. Club training is hard and takes a little recovery. Legs are as bad as ever. Fridays run was a bit of a bonus and Sundays long run wasn't too bad.

Can't believe I was running so much better this time last year.

44.76 miles

No cycling

70 Mins Threshold - Clapham Route

Approximately 10.5 Miles

Route

Previous run 17/12/14

1	7:10.2
2	6:54.0
3	6:46.1
4	6:36.0
5	6:35.6
6	6:35.1
7	6:47.9
8	6:41.6
9	6:58.2
10	6:36.8
	3:22.8

2015 Virgin London Marathon Countdown Clock | CountingDownTo.com

2015 Virgin London Marathon Countdown Clock | CountingDownTo.com

Quick Roundup wc 29/12/14

Last week of the year, first week of marathon training - whatever, 5 runs totaling 50+ miles is really good. Poor parkrun but after a chesty cold and slack December it was never going to be great (but not that poor either! ). However, I look at it as a starting point and with London 16 weeks away there's plenty of time yet.

parkrun - Northampton

Northampton parkrun results for event #141. Your time was 00:19:56.
Congratulations on completing your 32nd parkrun and your 8th at Northampton parkrun today. You finished in 10th place and were the 10th male out of a field of 293 parkrunners and you came 1st in your age category VM45-49. Take a look at this week's full set of results on our website. Your PB at Northampton parkrun remains 00:18:17. Your best time this year remains 00:18:17.
You achieved an age-graded score of 73.41%. For an explanation of age-grading, please see the WAVA age grading overview.

2014 Review

Running

• Total Miles
• • 1618
• Sessions
• • 191
• Run Time
• • 194 hours 55 mins
• Overall Pace average
• • 7:14 m/m
• Races
• • 9
• Race Miles
• • 
    
• Parkruns
• • 3
• PB's
• • parkrun - 18:17, Northampton
  • 5k fastest recorded - 18:11, DA5K

Cycling

• Total Miles
• • 698
• Sessions
• • 53
• Ride Time
• • 40 hours 30 mins
• Overall Pace average
• • 17.23 mph

Last run of the year

The last run of 2014 ended my running year a little better than a few days ago. With a chesty cold it felt like the year was waning. Conscious of needing to run some 'double figures' nearer 15 to be precise I went out with  the intention of running my Melchbourne 13.1 route. Having realised I'd started wrong; by going upwards to Newton Road, rather than down to the A6 I thought it might be a good idea to run somewhere different. So, in Yielden I turned up the lane by the church and headed toward the old airbase runway;  Took as couple of sunrise snaps on my phone and headed down the runway and back - met up with Naythan, passed a few moments and headed home. Working out it could be 13 I decided to extend the route and try for 15 - as the Stava dowmnlaod shows,  I just made it.

Legs were tired - especially glutes and piriformis - never mind ,I recovered well.

Hope 2015 is good.