This week's training and other news...

I'll start with the news, I know my number for London. On Sunday April 25 2010 I will have the number 18205 on the front of my vest. I highlight the will the since I had a number allocated last year, and if you read one of my earlier blogs (why blog?) not being able to use the number was a fairly frustrating experience. I have no particular preferences over numbers, I don't think any have any special significance for me, but I'm relieved there's no obvious omen of bad luck there, no 13's, and no 666's.

That's enough of the news, now to the training...

Saturday 10th October - 31km Bike

A good fun lap with some ascents but nothing really challenging so I could maintain a fairly good pace throughout.

31km 2:34min/km 1:19:50

Sunday 11th October - 11.8km Run

This was intended to be a longer run, 15-20km, but after 3 or 4km's I decided to shorten it since I was suffering a bit with the heat, it was the consequence of having a lazy Sunday morning and not going out until midday.

11.8km 4:23min/km 51:40

Monday 12th October - 1.2km Swim

Since it was a bank holiday here I thought the Uni pool would be almost empty, but as it turned it was fairly busy. It didn't disrupt my swim too much though.

1.2km 27:30min/km 33:00

Tuesday 13th October - Football

Did plenty of running but didn't really enjoy the game. Had a perfectly good goal chalked as some people here seem to believe football is a non-contact sport, and while I was still angered by that I missed an absolute sitter.

Wednesday 14th October - Rest Day

Thursday 15th October - 6km Lap

This was one of my regular routes around where I live, I ran fairly hard and finished in my best time for the route, albeit only cutting 10 seconds from my previous best. I'm using this route to get comfortable running consistently below 4min/km in an effort to eventually improve my 10km time to below 40minutes. The average was good, but my pace was above 4min for the 2nd and 4th km.

6.1km 3:55min/km 23:50

Friday 16th October - Hill Running

After the difficulties I had in the previous week's race as promised I did a hill running session. Did a 3km run to start, then 4x400m uphill, running hard, with walking back down rests in between. I made a misjudgement getting home, and ran further than I wanted, I should've gone back on the route I to get to the hill so just done the 3km but ended up doing more than 5km. It was a tough 5km too as the uphill running took quite a bit out of me. It was a good workout, we'll see if it pays dividends in my next race.

12.6km 5:54min/km 1:14:24